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WINCHESTER

FIFTY YEARS A TOWN

Pubhshed to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anni
versary of the Town of Winchester,
Massachusetts

PUBLISHED BY
THE WINCHESTER STAR

THE BARTA PRESS, PRINTERS

INTRODUCTION.

c'~*'HE purpose of this volume is to preserve for coming generations and
"^ for future historians the story of the growth and prosperity of the
first half-century of the life of the town, and the names and portraits
of those citizens who have had a large share in the making of Win
chester, the finest municipality of homes in the circle of towns and cities that
surrounds the famous " Hub of the Universe." Indeed, Winchester, during
the fifty years of its existence, has had a wonderful growth, and is known as
the garden spot of the Metropolitan district. The men whose portraits are
printed in this volume were, many of them, instrumental in placing the town
on the solid foundation that it occupies at the present time.
It is difficult to reduce, within the limits of the following article, the inter
esting and abundant data collected by the active and honorary members of the
Winchester Historical Society, concerning the history of Winchester. Many
historical events, an account of which would be appropriate to a complete
history, are of necessity omitted or but slightly touched upon.
The biographical sketches are simple statements of the leading incidents in
the lives of those citizens, who, by their public services, by their business
interests and reputation, by their character and enterprise in many organiza
tions, and many fields of endeavor and usefulness, have made up the life of
the town, told in the briefest way and the fewest words. The plain statement
of facts is the most enduring story of the life and usefulness of a citizen. In
the brief period of fifty years, Winchester has been influential in State and
Nation, in war and peace, in legislation, in great reforms, in art, in business,
and professional life. There is no field of progress in which her citizens are
not found. Of the attainments of her citizens, the personal sketches and the
historical story will deal.
THEODORE P. WILSON.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WINCHESTER.

VER two centuries and a half
ago the territory now em-
*"' ' braced in Winchester was
a wild, unsettled part of
Charlestown, called Water-
field. It was a part of the original
territory granted to Charlestown by
the General Court in 1633 and defined
in 1636 as extending " eight miles into
the Country from their meeting house."
May 13, 1640, the General Court
granted Charlestown " two miles at
their head line, provided they build
within two years"; Oct. 7, 1640, they
also voted : "Charles Towne petition
is granted them, the proportion of four
mile square, with their former graunt
to 7nake a village." (Massachusetts
Colony Records.)
These last additions to Charles-
town's original grant extended much
beyond the present northerly line of
the eight mile limit, or ," Waterfield,"
and embraced the territory of the
present city of Woburn and the towns
of Burlington and Wilmington. The
wild lands of Waterfield (1633) in
cluded only the territoi"}' along the
banks of our Aberjona River from
Mystic Pond to the land of John Har
vard (Winchester Highlands), and the
territory bordering on Horn Pond and
Horn Pond River ; as its name im
plies, it was a zvaterjield. It was
surveyed and allotted to the inhabit
ants of Charlestown previous to 1638.
(See Charlestown Book of Posses-
3

sions.) By this record, supplemented
by a map of Waterfield, drawn by the
late George Cooke, Winchester can
define and locate her landowners of
1638. The}^ included such men as
Edward Converse, Edward Johnson,
Increase Nowell, Zachariah Symmes,
John Harvard, Thomas Graves, Eze
kiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richard
son, William Frothingham, George
Bunker, and manv others whose con
nection with our early history we are
proud to acknowledge.
It is evident from both the Charles
town and Massachusetts Colony Rec
ords that it was the intention of
Charlestown to allot the newly ac
quired territory to her own citizens
and to establish a village near the
site of Waterfield ; hence, our second
name " Charlestown Village."
Nov. 4, 1640, a committee of thir
teen was chosen by the town to " set
the bounds between Charlestown and
the village and to appoint a place for
the village." It seems that the com
mittee did not agree in their decision,
as the Woburn Records subsequently
state that "it was in part assented to
and part denyed." It appears, also,
that after securing the grant of new
land a project developed among the
leaders of the Charlestown church to
establish a new church and a new
town. Hence, on November 4, the
church (not the inhabitants) of
Charlestown, of which Rev. Zacha-

riah S3'mmes, the ancestor of the
Symmes family in Winchester, was
pastor, chose a committee of seven —
Edward Converse, Edward Johnson,
Ezekiel Richardson, John Mousall,
Thomas Graves, Samuel Richardson,
and Thomas Richardson — as com
missioners for the erection of a new
church and town, where a "village"
had been originally designed within
the limits of Charlestown. (Charles
town Records.) In the colonial days

She therefore discountenanced the
enterprise and watched all who were
in favor of it with a " jealous eye."
Subsequently, the commissioners seem
to have overcome the opposition of the
church, or to have out-voted the op
ponents of the new departure, as at a
church meeting, held Dec. 3, 1640, it
was voted " full power is given to
Edward Converse and Company to go
on with the work."
It does not appear that the town

TOWN HALL.

the authority of the Puritan church
was equal, if not superior, to the civil
authority ; thus it was through the in
strumentality of the church, not the
town, of Charlestown that our terri
tory, first Waterfield, then Charles
town Village, was finally annexed to
Woburn in 1642. Though the church
appointed the commissioners above re
ferred to, yet when a large number
came forward to join the new town,
the church became afraid that Charles
town would become "depopulated."

government opposed the church com
missioners, though the General Court
did not incorporate Woburn into a
separate town till Oct. 6, 1642. The
act is a model of brevity : ' ' Charles-
towne Village is called Wooburne."
(Massachusetts Colony Records, Vol.
II.) Notwithstanding the passing of
this act, the bounds between the two
towns were not definitely fixed till
Dec. 16, 1650, when Charlestown
tardily acceded to the repeated solici
tations of Woburn, and a joint com-

mittee settled the bounds. This
dilatory action of Charlestown seemed
to show they were not anxious to di
vide their town, and explains descrip
tions of some of the Charlestown
farms : " Situate in Woburne in
Charlestowne bounds." (Page 27,
Charlestowne Book of Possessions ;
John Green, Recorder, 1645.)
The southerl}^ line of Woburn, as
laid out by the joint committee, fol
lowed the present line of our Church

From this description it can be seen
that much of the present territory of
Winchester, excluding all south of
Rangely and Black Horse Hill, was
a part of Woburn from this date until
1850, and the union was most happy
and prosperous.
Having traced the transfer of our
territory from ancient Charlestown to
Woburn, let us consider the state of
the country about the time of the
transfer. Think, for a moment, that

(Photo by T. Price Wilson.)

¦WINCHESTER BOAT CLUB.

Street, from Cambridge Street to the
High School house, thence in a straight
line to near the Black Horse Tavern into
the "Common," or woods. The record
reads as follows : "This first wee agree
upon : That the Line of devision be-
ttweene the two Townes shall runne
from Cambridge Line by ye Northwest
end of Mr. Nowell's Lott and so all
along bettweene Mr. Sims's Ffarme
and Edward Convers's Ffarme untill
it come to the East side of them ad-
joyneing to Charlestowne Common."

in 1635-40 this territory was consid
ered by the people of the sea-coast
settlements as a " remote land," with
which they were little acquainted, and
peopled in their imagination with wild
beasts and possibly still wilder men.
In reality it was a scraggy wilderness,
difficult of penetration. Edward John
son, one of the early explorers, says
in his contemporary description of it,
that it was a "watery swamp," diffi
cult to travel through, the country
being covered with an " unknown

woods." Sometimes the explorers in
their work passed through thickets
where their hands were forced to
make way for the passage of their
bodies, at times their feet clambering
over the crossed trees that had fallen,
on which, if they missed their foot
hold, down their feet sank into an un
certain bottom of water, where they
would wade up to their knees, tum
bling, sometimes higher and sometimes
lower, till wearied with this toil they

the blood trickle down at every step.
On the plain, besides, the sun cast at
that time such a reflecting heat from
such plants as the sweet fern, whose
scent was very strong, that some of
the party from that cause were near
fainting, being unable to bear the
odor which so severely oppressed
them, though, in other respects, they
had " veiy able bodies to endure
much travel." Further, they were
ignorant of their path, and were at

RESIDENCE, EDWIN GINN, BACON STREET.

would seek a place of rest, but instead
thereof, as the end of this trial came
near, they would meet with a scorch
ing plain, where their difliiculties were
increased, the ragged bushes there
scratching the legs of the adventurers
foully, even wearing the stockings on
the limbs of the men through to the
bare skin in the space of a short time,
and if not otherwise well defended
with boots or buskins, their flesh
would be torn ; some not amply well
provided with such guards have had

times out of sight of the sun, and were
bewildered, too, by their compass
miscarrying in crowding through the
bushes. The Indians, fortunatel}',
were not so formidable in this section
as their imagination pictured. At this
early period the white settlers were
sometimes obliged to burrow them
selves in the earth under some hillside
for their first shelter. To improve
this habitation they would cast the
earth aloft upon timber, and the short
showers were warded off from the

summit of their lodgings, but the long
rains penetrated through. Johnson
says the people were cheerful in these
humble habitations. " Every one
who could lift a hoe to strike it into
the earth aided in raising the first
crop ; but they had to stand stoutly
to their labors and tear up the roots
and bushes which abounded, the first
year bearing them in useful vegetables
a very thin crop," — so thin, indeed,
" that they were forced to cut their

" like the labors of Hercules, never
at an end."
The first record we have relating
especially to this unexplored country
was in 1635, when " Edward Con
verse, William Brackenbury, and Mr.
Abraham Palmer were desired to go
up into the country upon discovery
three or four days, for which they
were to be satisfied at the charge of
the town." (Charlestown Records.)
Edward Converse, the stanch Puri-

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EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY.

bread very thin for a long season."
As a help they lived upon fish which
abounded in the streams ; and they
were helped much by raising Indian
corn, which they prepared after the
manner of the Indians. As for meat,
they " looked not for any in those
times " ; unless they could barter with
the Indians for venison or raccoons,
whose flesh was considered not much
inferior to lamb. One thing they had
learned, in the words of Johnson, that
the "toil of a new plantation" was

tan, was the leader in this and subse
quent explorations. He was one of
Winthrop's company and an inhabit
ant of Charlestown as early as 1630,
and one of the selectmen from 1635
to 1640. He established the first
ferry between Charlestown and Bos
ton on the sight of the present
Charles River Bridge, paying £40
per year rental to the Colony for the
franchise. He might be called the
father of Winchester, as, in 1640, he
built and occupied the first house, on

the site of the present Thompson
estate, next to the post-oflice. He
also established the first " cornne
mill " on the site of the present Whit
ney mills previous to 1649, probably
in 1641. This was the first business
establishment in Winchester. At
Woburn he was a selectman for nine
teen years, from 1644, when the first
town officers were chosen. He was a
deacon in the church from 1642 till
his death in 1663, and represented the

his arrest for refusal to promulgate
the King's letter in 1662. This mis
sive asserted the King's supreme
authority over the colonies, curtailing
the liberties which the early settlers
had hitherto enjoyed unmolested. Ed
ward Converse was one of the most out
spoken of the patriots, and denounced
the letter as an embodiment of
Popery. He was summoned before
the General Court in 1663, but was
acquitted, as that body was composed

" Suntiyside,"
RESIDENCE, GEORGE H. GILBERT, CHURCH STREET.

town at the General Court. For
many years he was one of three com
missioners " for ending small causes."
(Trial justice.) All the facts show
that Converse was from his arrival on
the shores of Massachusetts an in
fluential man in all enterprises which
favored the extension and good gov
ernment of the first settlements.
An interesting episode in the life of
Edward Converse, displaying his in
dependent and patriotic character, was

of delegates full}^ sj^mpathizing with
the same views, but not so outspoken.
We have seen that the peninsula
which was called by the Indians, Mis-
hawum — an eminently descriptive
cognomen in their dialect — and which
is known to us to-day as "Charles
town," was the site of the original
settlement of that municipality. To
this nucleus, tracts of territory in the
interior were added, till the area of
many present towns was covered, the

name and jurisdiction of Charlestown
overshadowing all. But the process
of disintegration soon began. The
old town of Woburn was the first to
be set off in 1642. Charlestown, at
length shorn of this and other external
territory, has shrunken again to less
than her original limits, and in the
course of time has even lost her name,
sinking her ancient dignity and iden
tity in that of her still younger sister
city and neighbor — Boston.
Posterity owes a great debt to the

scattered, and plenty and comfort
abounded. Let us now consider the natural
features of Waterfield, and the locali
ties well known to the early settlers.
These were Mistick Pond, Spot Pond,
Horn Pond, Horn Pond River, Horn
Pond Mountain, the Aberjona River,
Rag Rock, and Cheese Rock, all of
which are now known by the same
names, and appear on very early
maps, even before the settlement of
Woburn. And so appear Winter

UNITARIAN CHURCH.

perseverance of the first seceders from
Charlestown, especially to Edward
Converse, the first settler in Water-
field, The silence and solitude of
this forest home must have afforded a
great contrast to him from the sur
roundings he had enjoyed in England,
and those he had just left behind in
the compact and comparatively active
village of Charlestown, Gradually,
however, the wilderness became a
fertile land. The wild beasts were

Pond and Wedge Pond, but not so
distinctly defined, Mistick Pond in
early times was considered to be sixty
fathoms (360 feet) deep, and its
neighbor. Fresh Pond, in Cambridge,
to be forty fathoms deep. How much
this depth may be overstated, those
who manage the municipal water
works at those places best know.
The fathers evidently believed them
to be ponds of very deep water, and at
that time they were stocked with myr-

iads of fish, and people came long
distances, from Charlestown, Boston,
and Cambridge, to catch them for
food, and for manure for their lands.
The highway from Woburn to
Mistick Bridge (Medford) passed
through the center of the present town
of Winchester, and there is extant a
report of the laying out of this way in
1660. It had, however, existed as a
highway as early even as 1646, and
evidently as early as the building of
the first house upon it in 1640. It
was described in part as the highway,
from "Woburn meeting-house" to

Let us now refer to the Woburn
Town Records for some of the facts
referring to the work of the early
settlers. These records are dated
1640, although it has been seen that
Woburn was not incorporated until
1642, the first town oflicers chosen in
1644, and the bounds established in
1650. It is now believed by the best
authorities that these early records are
made up of original, private memo
randa of events, written by Edward
Johnson, the first town clerk of Wo
burn (1644), and transferred to the
town books at a later date. It will be

RESIDENCE, WILLIAM C. NEWELL, MAIN STREET.

" Edward Converse's mill," and the
" parting of the ways of the Con
verses and Richardsons, to their
now dwelling-houses," is mentioned.
Through Winchester it ran " along
upon a brow " until it came to a bridge
" made at a place called Half- Way
Swamp." The bounds were " marked
trees " on one or both sides, or in the
middle of the way. The " mill-pond "
and " corne mill" of Edward Converse
are mentioned in connection with this
highway, also an " enclosure " belong
ing to him, and his " old orchard," and
the " mill-dam." The whole way was
practically a forest path.

noticed that they are written in the
past tense, not the present. They are
certainly the most complete and inter
esting record of earl}' local history
possessed by any city or town. Win
chester should gladly contribute her
proportionate share, to preserve and
publish these records.
On Feb. 10, 1640 (O. S.) : " The
first bridge was laid over the Aber
jona River o\'er against Edward
Convers' house, and called Could
Bridg." The site of this bridge was
at the present center of Winchester,
on the spot where the bridge now
stands. It was called Cold Bridge,

probably because it was made in mid
winter, during severe weather. This
spot was also called below the bridge
"The King's Ford." A few days
later forty persons came from Charles
town to the place where the village
was to be located. These persons
spent their time in marking trees and
laying bridges, say the records, but
the difficulties before them appeared
so great and " the way being so plain

dertaking : "26 of 6 mo. 1641 : A
Bridg was made across Horn Pond
River ; though the place was soe boggy
it swallowed up much wood before it
could be made pasable, yet it was
finished and called Longe Bridg."
The location of this bridge was,
beyond doubt, on the ancient high
way from Woburn to the Converse
mill, in the rear of the present house
of Mr. Sullivan Cutter, in Winchester.

iPlioto hy T. Price Wilson.)

CALUMET CLUB.

backward, that divers never went
forward again ! "
It is furthur recorded : "On the 25
of 6 mo. 1641. Things going heavily
on and many Blocks in the way es
pecially sum of their own company
disheartening, this day was sett apart
for humble seeking the Lord by fast
ing and prayer whom they found
gratious in keeping upp the spirits of
sum to the work." By the next entry
(the next day) it seems that those
whose "spirits" were kept "up to
the work" engaged in an arduous un-

This is proved beyond controversy by
the results of recent research by Mr.
W. R. Cutter, and others.
Later than the date last mentioned
(1652), Edward Johnson, the author of
" The Wonder Working Providence,"
writes that "the situation of the town
of Woburn was in the highest part of
the yet peopled land" and "full of
pleasant springs and a great variety
of verjr good water." The abundance
of water, he remarks, "the summer's
heat causeth to be more cooler, and
the winter's cold maketh more

warmer." The meadows were not
large, " but lie in divers places to
particular dwellings"; the same
"doth their springs." There was no
great quantity of "plain land" in
any one place, and the land was very
fruitful in many places, and the rocks
and swamps yielded " very good food
for cattle." The people, says John
son, were "very laborious — if not
exceeding — some of them."
Not much is known about the

standing on the same side of the road
with the house, and immediately in
front of it, as is common with ancestral
shade-trees. The tree was cut down
about 1841. Sewall speaks of this
tree in his diary (1702). After the
Converse occupation of this house for
several generations, Abel Richardson,
in 1774, became the owner of it,
probably the same house built, owned,
and occupied by the original Edward
Converse. Abel Richardson, a soldier

{Photo hy T. Price Wilson.)

WINCHESTER SAVINGS BANK.

building of the first house. It was
built during the year 1640, and on
Jan. 4, 1640 (O. S.), a meeting
of the settlers was held in it. Its
location was near the site of the house
of the late Deacon Benjamin F.
Thompson on Main Street, Win
chester. It was on the easterly side
of the road, and between the road and
the river. His mill was on the op
posite side of the road, now Whitney's
mill. In 1702 this house was over
shadowed by a large and shady elm,

of the French and Revolutionary wars,
died here at great age, in 183 1, and
in a few years his estate was sold.
There is a description extant of this
house as it appeared in 1798, and a
picture of the same accompanies this
sketch. It was thirty-five feet by
thirty; area 1,050 square feet.
There were nineteen windows and
one hundred and fifty-iive square feet
of glass. The house was two stories
in front and one in the rear. With
the land only on which it stood, it was

valued at six hundred and fifty dollars.
The other buildings connected with
the estate were an old wood-house, a
chaise-house, a barn, and a grist-mill.
By 1841 the old house had disap
peared, and it must, therefore, have
stood about two hundred years.
After the Boston and Lowell Railroad
was opened through South Woburn,
now Winchester, in 1835, ^ village
soon grew up. The inhabitants were
mainly farmers, and there were a few

There is in the first volume of the
Woburn Town Records a description of
estates near the center of Winchester,
of date, 1692 to 1699. These lands
belonged to the Converses, and there
is a description of other lands located
in this part of Woburn of date also as
early as the year 1673. We are un
able to particularize here ; but the
familiar names of Horn Pond Hill,
Horn Pond, Winter Pond, Wedge
Pond, the Aberjona River, Blind

RESIDENCE, ALONZO P. WEEKS, " RANGELEY,

mills on the larger streams. In 1850
the village was incorporated as the
town of Winchester ; and from that time
the growth has been constant, owing to
favorable railroad facilities and supe
rior natural attractions, and to-day it is
widely known for its fine residences, its
cultured and wealthy citizens, and the
elevating influence of its institutions.
A few other matters which have a
particular relation to Winchester terri
tory are here alluded to as of especial
interest on this occasion.

Bridge, and Indian Hill are there
mentioned. Waterfield, Rockfield,
Cold Bridge, Long Bridge, and
Elbow Hill have not retained their
original names. Would it not be well
to revive some of these in the future
naming of public places? Blind
Bridge, first named Long Bridge, had
a greater vitality as a name than some
of the above mentioned, and is famil
iar to the oldest citizens. Ridge Hill
(near the site of the Unitarian Church)
was the evident successor of Elbow

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Hill, and is remembered by persons
now living, though the height itself
has been leveled. Indian Hill, now
Andrews' Hill, is mentioned in a deed
of 1650, and this name appears in
Edward Converse's inventory of 1663.
Our "Common" is mentioned in
Edward Converse's will, 1659, '^^'-^ ^^
expresses therein a wish for its con
tinuance as such. Ridge Hill is
mentioned in the inventory of a
descendant of Edward Converse in
1767, and Wedge Pond Hill is
another name common at this time.
The celebrated reservation for the

In Winchester limits, also, were the
farms of John Harvard, the minister
from whom Harvard College was
named, and of Thomas Graves, mas
ter of the first ship built in Boston,
and afterwards rear-admiral under
Cromwell. Here were the lots of the
numerous and long-lived family of
the Richardsons, of the Converses,
Carters, Gardners, Johnsons, Symmes,
Nowells, and others. The river
is mentioned in the early Charlestown
grants of 1638 ; it is called The Aber
jona in 1641.
In 1670 the tragic death of Sam-

GARDENS AND BUNGALOW, PRESTON POND.
PART OF ORIGINAL ESTATE OF OLD BLACK HORSE TAVERN.

Indians was situated on the western
shore of Mystic Pond, where the rem
nants of the tribes could plant and hunt
without molestation ; the zveir above
the ponds (nearly opposite the Everett
estate) being reserved for the Indians
to fish at while their queen lived.
She died about 1662, drowning her
self, it is said, in the waters of a
brook still bearing the name, " Indian
Brook," which flows into Mystic Pond,
a few rods from the present Win
chester and Arlington line, near the
Dwight estate.

uel Converse, the son of Edward, oc
curred at the old Converse mill, from
an injury caused by the water-wheel.
This Samuel Converse left one son,
who was the ancestor of the Hon.
Edward S. Converse, of Maiden,
conspicuous for his noble and charit
able deeds.
Winchester also was the scene, on
April 10, 1676, during King Philip's
War, of a triple murder perpetrated b}'
Indians. A band of Indians entered
the house of Samuel Richardson
(Washington Street, near Prince

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Avenue), while he and his son were
at work in the fields, killed and
scalped his wife Hannah and his son
Thomas. The nurse seized the babe
Hannah, and fled to the garrison
house (near the present Joseph Stone
estate). To save her own life she
dropped the babe, whom the Indians
killed. The savages were pursued
by Mr. Richardson and a party of
neighbors, and one was shot near a
rock on the west side of the present

1680 the town, failing to observe
strictly the law regarding ammunition,
had been fined, and this fine was re
mitted on the petition of Lieut. Wil
liam Johnson and James Converse,
and the promise to be " more obser
vant " in the future.
On Sept. 5, 1724, an engagement
with the Indians occurred at Dunstable,
in which three W^oburn men were
killed. One of these certainly was
a Winchester resident — Benjamin

OLD BACON HOUSE AT MYSTIC.

Highland Reservoir ; the rest were
pursued to Lynnfield, but escaped the
punishment due them.
A few interesting military events of
the period are as follows : In 1691
the selectmen of Woburn appointed
" Lieut. James Converse and Sergt.
Matthew Johnson to seek out to pro
cure a supply of ammunition, accord
ing to law, for the town." This was
in response to an order from the
higher powers, and a desire to avoid
the imputation of negligence, — for in

Carter, who, according to the inscrip
tion on his old gravestone at Dun
stable, was " aged 23 years." The
English w^ere beaten in this attack,
and it is related that the men of
Carter's family, when they heard of
the manner of his death, cast contemp
tuous phrases upon it, saying, " They
would not be such boys as to be killed
by the Indians ! " It is also related
that the last seen of Benjamin Carter
by his family, when he set out on this
fatal expedition, was when he rode

IS

down Indian, now Andrews' Hill, be
ing mounted on liorseback, through
the crooked path near the junction of
Cambridge and Church Streets. His
father was Lieut. John Carter, son of
Capt. John Carter.
Much more could be written con
cerning the early history of Win
chester did space admit, but some
idea of the importance and ancient
character of the hostelry known as the
Black Horse Tavern should be men-

it was described as on the upper route
to Casco Bay in Maine. In 1813
the high-sounding name of the route
from " Boston to Montreal " was
applied to this road, and in the fol
lowing year the route " to Montreal
and Quebec ! "
In 1814, on a Sunday evening,
Stephen Swan returned home from
Dorchester Heights with the company
of light infantry of which he was a
member, which put up at Black Horse

^^ii^ 4^^iil&'6MUf/

TANNERIES, BEGGS & COBB.

tioned. This house at one time gave
a name to the village, — it being called
Black Horse Village. As long ago
as the year 1761, Giles Alexander
sold it to Noah Wyman, it having
been licensed before that time for an
inn or tavern, and Wyman continued
to keep it. Noah Richardson owned
and kept it in 1774. During the Rev
olution it was an important rendez
vous for the patriots. It was also at
that time on an important stage route
from Boston to Portsmouth. In 1792

Tavern. The company had been
absent on that service seven weeks,
guarding the heights on account of the
war. Soon afterward, the great and
important news of peace was received
at this tavern, traveling to Boston
from New York in thirty-two hours,
— two hundred and forty-two miles !
From 1834 to 1836 Winchester,
near the crossing of the Boston and
Lowell Railroad at Main Street —
ancient as the first settlement of the
region — was called the "Woburn

Gates," because gates were closed
when trains were passing. The origi
nal scheme of the railway connecting
Boston and Lowell did not contem
plate any provision for business at this
place, and no depot was built Pas
sengers had to walk to Walnut Hill

here, each larger than its predecessor.
In 1872, after bitter opposition, the
depot site was fixed at the present
location. For two years after the
opening of the railroad, few changes
were observed. But there was a man
whose eagle eye saw the advantages

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

and pay $1 fare to Boston. The of South Woburn for business and the
building first used as a station was a probability of the founding of a new
small shoemaker's shop, about 10 by town. This was Samuel Steele Rich-
15, which answered every purpose ardson, a large manufacturer of shoes
till the increase of the village rendered in Woburn, and then considered a
a larger building necessary. This rich man.
depot was opposite Lyceum Hall ; a He was born in Woburn, July 19,
second and third building were erected 1806, son of Calvin and Sarah. The
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family were residents of Richardson's
Row, now embraced in Winchester.
He was active in whatever he under
took. His manner was inspiring, and
he gave life and vigor to all his
undertakings. He possessed some
peculiarities. For instance : " From
Portland to New Orleans he would
travel often in advance of railroads

passingly active." When he went to
South Woburn, in 1836, it was " a
small place with a blacksmith and
wheelwright shop, and a little grocery
store ; Cutter's mill was grinding corn
and beginning to saw mahogany. The
old Abel Richardson mill was top
pling over with age, the roof falling in,
and the millstones sunk in the stream

N)<;\\' WADLEIGH SCHOOL.

and steamboats, with his coat under his
arm, a shoe in his hand, and a change
of linen in his pocket, never waiting
for any one, yet alwaj^s behind in
starting. Once, on the Mississippi
River, he was left at Memphis, but
before the boat got to the next landing
he was there, ready to spring aboard
on its arrival." Me was a man, writes
one who well knew him, " propelled
by a mind intensely nervous and sur-

below. The cars had been running
two years."
He obtained possession of the an
cient Converse mill site, and of a
large tract of land adjoining it, and
repaired or entirely rebuilt the old mill,
and built sexeral dwelling-houses, and
a shoe factory \\here the L\ceum
Hall afterwards stood. He also pur
chased the Black Horse Tavern and
Farm.

iS

In 1837, however, having specu
lated in Eastern lands too extensiveh',
he became financially embarrassed,
and the interests of the new village
suffered. His place, however, was
taken by a man of still greater finan
cial ability, and one of the most effi
cient promoters of the future prosperity
and distinctive character of Win
chester. This was Benjamin F.
Thompson, brother of the well-known
Gen. Abijah Thompson, of Woburn,

by a refined and cultivated taste, de
noting attention to the proprieties of a
thoughtful and discriminating habit of
life, and in all his business relations
and transactions there was a corre
sponding correctness. His word was
considered by all who knew him as
good as his bond. Such was the man
who now joined his fortunes with the
village of South Woburn, and latterly
of the town of Winchester.
The late Oliver R. Clark says of

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

who had lived at the Centre. Like
his brother he had begun business in a
small way, removing to the South
village in 1837 or 1838, to the old
Converse mill. After a time he pur
chased land and built a tannery, now
Philip Waldmyer's. In the older
village at the Centre he had been a
well-established influence for good.
His garden in Woburn was a special
attraction of the town His person
and surroundings were distinguished

the period of 1836 to 1838, that there
was but little business at that time in
Winchester. The streets were like
wise few. Main Street, or the great
road from Woburn to Medford, was
then very much as it now is. The
houses also were not numerous, and
in his article he attempts a description
of them and of the establishments for
business, the principal one being the
old mahogany mill of the Messrs.
Cutter. The original mill was burned

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in 1841, and immediately rebuilt, and
an important business begun. The
"Gates" were ponderous affairs to
protect travelers from danger at the
railroad crossing on Main Street, and
were swung open and closed by the
bystanders. At that time it was not
uncommon for persons to travel miles
to see the steam monster, as people
then called the locomotive. The
trains, however, were few and far

on stopping at stations were those of
the most approved English fashion of
that date.
The village which had thus sprung
up " just eight miles from Boston,"
by railroad, was given a still more
positive character as an independent
community by the formation of a
church parish in 1840. A house of
worship was dedicated Dec. 30, 1840,
and was altered and enlarged in 1852,

NE-W MYSTIC SCHOOL.

between, the engines small, and the
cars much like the old-fashioned
stage-coaches, with the doors on the
sides. The engineer was not pro
tected, as now, by a cab, and the con
ductor and brakeman rode on the top
of the cars. The speed of these
trains, according to the statement of
the late Eli Cooper, one of the earliest
locomotive engineers on this road, was
considerable, perhaps as great as manj'
of the trains now. The proceedings

and destroyed by fire on March 20,
1853 ; and its successor was dedicated
Oct. II, 1854, being erected near the
site of the former. Behind this edi
fice, in 1844, the parish established a
small burying-ground. This was
afterwards given up, and on April 7,
1S51, the town voted to choose a com
mittee to purchase a lot for a ceme
tery, which was named Wildwood
Cemetery. On the site of the ancient Converse

mill purchased by S. S. Richardson,
a new one was built in 1838-39. In
this latter structure quite a variety of
business was carried on : sash and
blind making by Leonard Gilson and
others ; veneer sawing by Harrison
Parker in 1843. This building was
burned Jan. 18, 1845, and soon re
built. In the building burned, Amos
Whittemore built one of the first ma
chines invented for pegging shoes.

and Lowell Railroad. In the even
ings in winter, the glowing fires were
seen in full blast, and the air of enter
prise about the place was inspiring
and invigorating. The andquity of
this stand can be traced into the
former century, when horses were
shod here belonging to the ancient
stage-coaches. At Symmes Corner
were blacksmith and wheelwright
shops, where considerable business

RESIDENCE, ORREN C. SANBORN, SHEFFIELD ROAD.

It was his invention, and attracted
much attention when new. Joel
Whitney occupied the first floor at
this time, having removed from South
Reading in 1844. This mill was
owned for many years by Harrison
Parker. Further along on the same street,
near the junction of Washington and
Main Streets, was the blacksmith shop
of Major Francis Johnson and Nathan
B. Johnson. It was one of the most
famous shops of the region, and much
work was done in it for the Boston

was carried on by Marshall and John
Symmes. The act to incorporate the town of
Winchester in the year 1850 is photo
graphed, and a copy is presented in
the Winchester Record, Vol. I., page
41. The new town was taken from
Woburn, Medford, and West Cam
bridge (now Arlington). The line
given between Woburn and Winches
ter was half-way between the south side
of Woburn Common and the depot at
South Woburn. The act was passed
April 30, 1850. The separation of

this town from the older towns was
not made without very vigorous re
monstrances on the part of those whose
territory was affected. Measures for
a separation were first taken by in
habitants of the section to be set off,
in December, 1849. The first meet
ing was held on December 17. Ben
jamin F. Thompson and John A.
Bolles and other well-known citizens
were prominent in the project. A
second meeting was held December 24,

its first application. Hon. Albert H.
Nelson, of Woburn, was engaged as
counsel for the petitioners, and his
services and influence were valuable.
" No money was used by either side
to gain influence, not a dollar for
lobby or a supper " ; and when the
legislative committee visited Winches
ter to examine the ground, they were
given a very plain collation, not in a
spirit of parsimony, but in accordance
with the requirements of the occasion ;

RESIDENCE, DAVID N. SKILLINGS, PLEASANT STREET.

when the first representative from
Winchester, Frederick O. Prince,
took active part in the proceedings.
At this meeting the following names
for the new town were proposed :
Appleton, Avon, Channing, Water-
ville, Winchester, and Winthrop.
The name of Winchester was decided
upon in honor of Col. William P.
Winchester. "I'he petidon for incorporation was
presented to the legislature on Jan. 19,
1850, and the request was granted on

indeed, had a more expensive enter
tainment been presented, the cause
would undoubtedly ha\e received in
jury. The citizens paid their counsel
two hundred and fifty dollars, and
Mr. Bolles, for his legal work, fifty
dollars, also all the necessary ex
penses, the town committee making
no cliarge for their services.
Tlie town of Winchester was
started clear of debt. Her motto was :
"Economy and prompt payment";
and her leading town officers for the

first year made no charge for their
services, and the service w^as itself of
the best.
The choice of the name of Win
chester was fortunate in one respect,
that it brought a welcome gift of three
thousand dollars to be used in the
erection of a Town Hall, or any other
proper object of municipal expendi
ture. Colonel Winchester was in
formed that the name was given to
the town, at the request of its inhabit
ants, out of compliment to him, and
he, not being content with a mere
verbal expression of his appreciation,
begged leave to present to the new
town the sum stated for the purposes

Town Flail account to purchase a
clock, bell, and other furnishings for
that building. On the bell in the
tower an inscripdon is cast: "This
clock and bell commemorate the gift
of William P. Winchester to the
town which bears his name."
The following correspondence is
self-explanatorjf : —
Boston, Dec. 27, 1900,
138 Beacon Street.
To the Selectmen of the Town of Win
chester : —
WiU you please accept this portrait of
my father and punch bowl sent herewith.
Yours very truly,
Thos. B. Winchester.

VIEW OF "RANGELEY FROM CHURCH STREET.

before mentioned. The letter was
dated at Boston, May 25, 1850.
Colonel Winchester died Aug. 6,
1850, at the early age of forty-nine
3'ears, at his residence in Watertown.
He was an accomplished scholar in
the French, Spanish, and Italian lan
guages. The money presented by
Colonel Winchester was first ex
pended on the purchase of Wildwood
Cemetery. The Winchester fund was
returned to the town treasury in 1885.
Recently a part was transferred to the

Selectmen's Office,
Town Hall Building,
Winchester, Mass.
Mr. Thomas B. Winchester,
Boston, Mass.,
Dear Sir Your letter requesting the
Board of Selectmen of Winchester to ac
cept, in behalf of the town, two valuable
works of art once belonging to your father,
William P. Winchester, for whom our town
was named, have been received.
In reply to your generous offer, the
Board has voted to gratefully accept the
gifts, in behalf of the town, as per vote en-

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closed relating to their care and preserva
tion. Thanking you, in the name of the
town of Winchester, for the many bene
factions received from the Winchester
family during the fifty years now closing of
the town's incorporation. Very truly yours,
The Board of Selectmen,
Geo. H. Carter, Clerk.

Voted, That the Board of Selectmen of

These two gifts are now in the pos
session of the town. The portrait of
Col. William P. Winchester, whom
the town was named after, is of
large dimensions and is said to be a
good likeness. The punch bowl is a
massive affair about fourteen inches
in height and of solid silver, the inside
of the bowl being lined with gold. In
scribed in a panel of the bowl is the
following : —

RESIDENCE, REV. JOHN W. SUTER, CHURCH STREET.

Winchester, in behalf of the town, grate
fully accepts from Thomas B. Winchester,
Esq., the gift of an oil portrait of his
father, William P. Winchester, for whom
the town was named. Also a gift of an
elegant silver punch bowl, once publicly
presented to William P. Winchester by his
Boston friends.
It is also voted, to hereby request the
trustees of the Town Library to assume the
care and preservation of the interesting
mementoes in question in the library col
lection of artistic and historical articles.
Attest,
Geo. H. Carter, Clvrl;.

Presented to
William P. Winchester
to commemorate the pleasant hours his
friends have passed with him on board
his }'acht " Northern Light."
Winchester had one advantage
when incorporated : she was a new
town, and could avail herself of the
experience of many generations, and
avoid the errors of older municipalities,
and shape her institutions after a more
perfect pattern. Great attention was

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COL. WILLIAM P. WINCHESTER.
paid to schools, and the town expendi
ture was principally for this object.
At the outset she had no expensive
public buildings to erect, and the fund
contributed bj' Colonel Winchester
aided in the purchase of land for a
cemetery. The school committee had
charge of all the schools and school-
houses, — there were no school dis
tricts, and no district or prudential
committees, — and one common and
uniform system of administration was
applied to every school and school di
vision. This arrangement was at that
time an improvement on the methods
in other towns, though common enough
now. From the first j^ear of her cor
porate existence there was a High
School kept, in which the town had
commendable pride, although the
number of families did not re
quire the maintenance of such a
school. She was then the smallest
town in the State that sustained a

High School. When the whole of
her population was but eighteen hun
dred and one, and her valuation but
half a million dollars, her standing
among the towns and cities of Mass
achusetts, in the comparative amount
of money expended for education, was
in one year, the second.
In the Civil War of 1861 to 1865,
the town furnished two hundred and
forty-four men, at a pecuniary cost
of nearly thirty thousand dollars ;
this amount was raised by hiring
money for a term of years, by
taxation, and by subscription ; the
town officers and others giving their
services and expenses. The number
of men who died in the service was
ten. In her quota were five persons
bearing the rank of major, — one on
the staff, two of the commissary, and
one of the medical department, and
one in the line, — including the well-
known names of Bolles, Norton,

FREDERICK O. PRINCE.

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Richardson, Ingalls, and Prince.
Seven bore the title of captain — four
in the line, one in the navy, one pay
master in the navy, and one acting-
master in the navy — including the
names of Bacon, two Richardsons,
Williams, Spicer, Weld, and Ford.
The last two lost their lives in the
service. There were also two lieu
tenants — Abrahams and Hartshorn
— five minor medical officers, one
acting assistant paymaster in the navy,

tion of an economical plan of a
gravity supply, from impounding
reservoirs. When the system is com
pleted, it will consist of two beautiful
lakes, two hundred and twenty acres
in area, at a level one hundred and
thirty feet above the town, surrounded
by rocky hills, in the heart of the
Middlesex Fells, and free from all
sources of contamination. When
driveways are built, as contemplated,
along the shores and connected with

RESIDENCE, E. H. STONE, CAMBRIDGE STREET.

three sergeants, and two corporals.
A good record for a town which
started in 1850 with thirteen hundred
population, and two hundred and fifty
voters. In 1873 the project of a public
water supply for Winchester was agi
tated ; the first report of the water
commissioners appeared the following
year. To the energetic perseverance
and courage of the late David N.
Skillings, one of the members of the
first board, is largely due the adop-

the woodland drives around Spot
Pond, Winchester can boast of a park
system inferior to none.
In 1887 the corner-stone of the
Town Flail and Libraiy was laid, and
the building was completed in 1S89.
The hall has a seating capacit}- of
thirteen hundred. The town officers
hax'e suitable and pleasant accommo
dations. The Public Library, estab
lished in 1859, 's located in a wing
of the building, well adapted for its
purposes.

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SAMUEL J. ELDER.
SAMUEL JAMES ELDER was
born in Hope, R. I., Jan. 4, 1850,
his parents being James and Deborah
(Keene) Elder.
He attended public schools at Law
rence, Mass., and after fitting for
college went to Yale, where he
graduated in the class of 1873. Mr.
Elder afterwards studied law in Boston
with Judge John H. Hardy, and was
admitted to practise at the Suffolk Bar
in 1875. He is now associated with
William C. Wait and Edmund A.
Whitman, under the firm name of
Elder, Wait & Whitman, having
offices in the Pemberton Building,
Pemberton Square.
Mr. Elder served one term, 1885, as
representative to the Legislature from
the 14th Middlesex District. He is a
member of the Boston Bar Associa
tion, Yale Alumni Association, being
president in 1893 ; member of the

Union Club, University Clulj, and
Curtis Club of Boston ; member of
William Parkman Lodge and Calu-
ment Club of Winchester, being vice-
president in 1896.
He was married May 10, 1876, to
Lilla Thomas at Hastings-on-Hudson,
New York, and they have four chil
dren, Margaret Monro, Fanny Adele,
Ruth Dunbar, and Samuel James
Elder.
LEWIS PARKHURST, pub
lisher, was born in Dunstable, Mass.,
July 26, 1856, being the son of
Thomas Henry and Sarah (Wright)
Parkhurst. After attending public school and
academy at South Woodstock, Vt.,
he v\'ent to Dartmouth College, where
he graduated in 1878. In 1878 and
1880 he taught school at Fitchburg,
and in 1881 was principal of a high
school at Athol. From 188 1 to 1887

LEWIS PARKHURST.

he was principal of the Winchester
High School, which position he re
signed in 1887 to enter the employ of
Ginn & Co., book publishers. In
1890 Mr. Parkhurst was admitted as
a member of the firm, and has charge
of the financial affairs ofthe concern,
and of the Athenaeum Press at Cam
bridge. Mr. Parkhurst has taken a very
active interest in the affairs of Win
chester, and was a member of the
Water Board for seven years, trustee
of the Public Library, and a member
of the School Committee. He was
also chairman of the Building Com
mittee of the new Unitarian Church,
and was the first president of the
Middlesex County National Bank,
1897 to 1900.
He was married in 1880 to Miss
Emma Wilder, of Weston, Vt., and
has two children. Wilder L. and
Richard.
ALFRED CLARENCE VIN
TON, lawyer, was born in Stoneham,
Mass., July 16, 1844, being the son
of John Adams and Laurinda (Rich
ardson) Vinton.
Mr. Vinton graduated from Har
vard College in 1866, in the same
class with the late Elisha D. Bangs,
Albion Cate, and William E. Skillings,
all present or former residents of
Winchester. He studied law in the
office of Charles Theodore Russell
and Edward S. Rand, and in the Har
vard Law School, and was admitted
to the Suffolk Bar Jan. 21, 187 1.
Mr. Vinton was counsel for the
Massachusetts Title Insurance Com
pany of Boston, from 1887 to 1895,
at which later date he resigned this

ALFRED C. VINTON.
position and formed with Arnold A.
Rand, John Lathrop Wakefield, and
Edward A. Wilkie, the law firm of
Rand, Vinton & Wakefield, of which
he is still a member. He has been
Conveyancer of the Metropolitan
Water Board, and its successor the
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage
Board, since December, 1895,
Mr, Vinton has been prominently
identified with Winchester affairs,
having moved here from Boston in
1870, He was one of the trustees of
the Winchester Town Librarj' for
six years, and a deacon of the First
Congregational Church of Win
chester from 1881 to 1899, when he
declined a reelection.
He is or has been a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Congrega
tional Club of Boston, of which he
was secretary for five 3-ears ; Mystic
Valley Club, Boston Bar Associadon,
and of the Abstract Club of Boston.

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Mr. Vinton married Miss Emma
Frances Mills, daughter of the late
James Mills of Boston, Oct. ii, 1872,
and has had three children, Helen M.,
Mabel L., and Stanlej^ Vinton. Miss
Mabel, the only surviving child, is a
student in the senior class at Rad-
cliffe College.
CHARLES EDWARD RED-
FERN, merchant, was born May 22,
1843, in Charlestown, Mass., his par
ents being William E. and Lucy
(Hughes) Redfern.
After attending the common school
he entered the lumber business, in
which he has been engaged for the
last forty-one years, most of the time
being connected with D. N. Skillings,
Sr., of the Skillings, Whitney &
Barnes Lumber Companj-.
Since December, 1901, he has held
the office of treasurer in the Win
chester Savings Bank.

CHARLES E. REDFERN.

EDGAR J. RICH.
Mr. Redfern married Miss Harriet
McLellan of Bath, Maine, they hav
ing had four children, Elizabeth G.,
Ralph B., Helen L., and Philip T.
EDGAR JUDSON RICH, lawyer,
was born in Milton, Mass., July 22,
1864, being the son of Harriet Louisa
(Allan) and A. Judson Rich. Mr.
Rich graduated from Harvard in 1887
with honors in Political Science, and
with the degree A. B. He afterwards
graduated from the Harvard Law
School, with the degrees of LL. B.
and A. M.
Mr. Rich was admitted to the Suf
folk County Bar in January, 1891,
where he has practised since then.
He is attorney for the Boston &
Maine Railroad, and has offices in the
Pemberton Building, Boston, where
he conducts a general practise.
He is a member of the Union Club,
Boston, and of the Golf and Calumet

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HENRY C. WIIITTEN.
Clubs of Winchester, being president
of the Calumet Club in 1900.
Mr. Rich has alwa}-s taken an
active and prominent part in the
affairs of Winchester, being identi
fied with all movements for the im
provement of the town. In 1893 he
married Miss Maiy Louise Aldrich,
of Fall River, Mass.
HENRY CLARK WFIITTEN,
merchant, was born in Vassalboro,
Me., his parents being Robert T. and
Dorcas H. Whitten.
Mr. Whitten was engaged in the
wholesale men's furnishing goods,
being a member of one of Boston's
prominent firms. He was a Mason,
and a member of the Calumet Club
of Winchester. ,
He married Miss Sarah E. Rice,
tiie\- had si.v children, Arthur IT., de
ceased, Gertrude, Charles T., Edward
R., Robert C, and Anna S., deceased.

Mr.. Whitten died in Winchester,
Nov. 4, 1901.
GEORGE HENRY GILBERT, a
retired merchant, was born at North
Andover, Mass., April 24, 1841. He
is of the old English family of Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, who was half-
brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. The
energy of that blood has appeared
through the subsequent generations,
enriched as it has been by marriage ;
for his maternal great-grandfather
was Capt. William Johnson who
fought at Bunker Hill ; and his grand
father, Jedediah Farnham, was a
major in the War of 181 2
His father, Hon. George H. Gil
bert, was a native of Brooklyn, Conn ,
and became a distinguished woolen
manufacturer, establishing extensive
factories at Ware and Gilbertville,
Mass., which he had incorporated as
the George H. Gilbert Manufacturing
Company. He was awarded the first
premium for finest flannels at the
World's Fair, London (Crystal
Palace), and the same subsequently
at the World's Fair, New York. He
gave to Amherst College its unrivaled
collection of Indian relics. He also
gave, and his family completed, a
noble granite church to Gilbertville.
Mr. Gilbert was educated at Ware
High School, Ware, ^Nlass., at Mon-
son Academ}', Monson, Mass., and
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass. At the age of twentv' he entered the
business of his father's commission
house as sales agent in New York, and
became a partner in the concern at
tvvent\-li\e. Fie engageil in banking
for a short period before retiring from

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GEORGE H. GILBERT.
business. He was tendered the unani
mous nomination of the Republican
party for the New York State Senate,
but declined for business reasons. He
was elected one of the charter members
of the New York Union League, so
powerful in the best political influence
of the nation.
Left motherless at two weeks of
age, he was tenderly reared by Miss
Lavinia Farnham, his mother's sister,
whom he always loved to call his
mother-aunt, and to whom he paid a
more than filial devotion. It would
be difficult to name a character more
beautiful than hers. It would be as
difficult to name one who has given
higher honor to beauty of character
than Mr. Gilbert paid to her. He re
tired from business at an early age to
provide a home and care for Miss
Farnham and Mrs. Susan (Farnham)
Smith, her sister. For some years
Mr. Gilbert resided in Boston. In

M.ciy, 1890, he came to Winchester,
selecting for his residence the estate
at the junction of Church and Dix
Streets, which he named "Sunnyside,"
where the light and love which he
lavished on his dear ones fully justi
fied the name he had chosen for his
home. There both ladies gently fell
asleep at a great age.
Mr. Gilbert has been for man}'
j^ears a very influential person in
Christian lines. He was prominent in
Park Street Church, Boston, during
the period of its most virile life, and
still retains his membership and pew
in that historic church. Since he has
resided in Winchester, he has been
a liberal helper in the Winchester and
Woburn Congregational churches.
His heart and hand have been open
to the great benevolences of the age,
and his gifts have gone out to the
ends of the earth. Mr. Gilbert has
retained his membership in the
Congregational Club, Boston. But
throughout his life he has made it his
special joy to be in touch with the
clergymen of his own and sister de
nominations. Perhaps no other lay
man has a wider acquaintance with
clergymen. Certainly no one does
them more kindnesses, or offers them
a larger hospitality. Scarcely a mail
passes without communications from
him to some of them, and the weeks
are few that see none of them at his
house. He is a keen judge of preach
ing, and a good sermon is like wine to
him. Mr. Gilbert is a lover of the fine
arts, and the walls of his home are
covered with rare paintings and pic
tures. He possesses literary tastes,
owns very choice books, is an interest

s'

ing conversationalist, and he enter-
tains hospitably and liberall}'.
A lover of horses, he has found
health jump with inclination, and has
kept much in God's out-of-doors,
speeding along behind a fleet pair of
equine beaudes. His stable at Sunny-
side has always been noted for the
extreme speed and beauty of its
horses. But even so his pleasure is
not complete unless he finds a friend
to share it. Having never married,
Mr. Gilbert has taken the world to
his heart, and many a pale cheek has
acquired a ruddy glow by the exhila
ration of a fresh morning drive with
him. During the summer months Mr.
Gilbert has, in recent 3'ears, fre
quented the North Shore and New
Hampshire coast, and has a summer
cottage at Little Boar's Head, N. H.
There he has very widely extended his
acquaintance with notable clerical and
other friends. In the season no day
passes without his carrying cheer by a
drive, or an exquisite box of flowers,
to the sick or the less favored with the
good things of God.
In the number of professions which
this diversified age enumerates, Mr.
Gilbert has for many years deserved
the credit of enrolling another, — the
profession of human kindness, in the
daily study and execution of which he
has achieved a large success.
CHARLES THOMAS MAIN,
the son of Thomas and Cordelia
(Reed) Main, was born Feb. 16,
1856, in Marblehead, Mass. After
attending the public schools of
Marblehead he attended the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, de-

CHARLES T. MAIN.
partment of mechanical engineers,
from which he graduated in 1876.
He was for three years assistant at
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, one year draughtsman at the
Manchester Mdls, Manchester, N. H.,
five years engineer, one year assistant
superintendent and five 3'ears super
intendent of the Lower Pacific Mills,
Lawrence, Mass.
For the past ten years he has prac
tised mill engineering, being a mem
ber of the firm of Dean & Main,
Boston. Mr. Main has held man}'^
important offices, being a member of
the Board of Aldermen, Lawrence,
1888 to 1890, of the Board of Trus
tees of the Public Libraiy, Lawrence,
1891, of the School Committee, 1891,
member of the Water Board of Win
chester, 1896 to the present time.
He was a member of the First Con
gregational Society of Winchester,
American Society of Mechanical En-

gineers, Boston Societ}' of Civil En
gineers, Society of Artists, New Eng
land Cotton Manufacturing Associa
tion, Calumet Club and Winchester
Boat Club, Technology Club and
Home Market Club.
He married Miss Elizabeth F.
Appleton, and has three children,
Charles R., Alice A., and Theodore.
SALEM WILDER, son of Jones
and Arethusa (Manning) Wilder, was
born in Sterling, Mass., Jan. 28, 1823.
He was educated at the Worcester
Count3' High School in 1842, and at
the Appleton Academy, New Ipswich,
N. H., 1843, at the seminary at Han
cock, N. H., in 1844 and 1845, and at
the Waterville College, Waterville,
Maine, 1845 and 1847.
Mr. Wilder was general agent for
the Elias Howe Sewing Machine, and
was general agent for the Butterick

FRANK F. CARPENTER.

SALEM WILDER.
Publishing Company from 1868 to
1891. He represented this district in
the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869,
and served on the Winchester School
Committee some fort3' years ago.
Mr. Wilder is a member of Wm.
Parkman Lodge of Masons. Feb. 18,
185 1, he was married to Miss Betsey
Stanley Shaw at Nashua, N. H. July
14, 1891, he married Mrs. Amelia
Morgan Vasseur. Mr. Wilder has
two children who lived to womanhood,
Mrs. Walter H. Marsh and Mrs.
Wallace P. Palmer.
FRANK FURBISH CARPEN
TER was born in Bethel, Maine, Sept.
12, 1865, being the son of Robert
John and Ellen Furbish Carpenter.
His education was obtained in the
schools of England, Germany, France,
and this country, finishing in the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, in the
class of 1887.

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JAMES F. DW'INELL.
He was married in Portland, Maine,
June 22, 1887 to Mary Wesselhoeft
Collins of that city. He has two chil
dren living, Robert John, who was
born in Mechanics Falls, Maine, and
Ruth, who was born in Winchester.
He has been engaged for a number
of 3'ears in the manufacture and sale
of paper and pulp, and is at present
president of the Dickerman Company
of Boston.
Mr. Carpenter has alwa3's been
deeph' interested in public affairs, par-
ticularl3f in the questions of education
and the development of the public
schools. He is a member of the
school committee, being elected in
1902 for a term of three years.
JAMES FISHER DWINELL,
merchant, was born in Newport,
N. IT., July 23, 1825, his parents
being Amos and Achsa (Turner)

Dwinell. He received a common
school education, and for nearly fifty
years was engaged in Boston in the
coffee and spice business, being the
senior member of the firm of Dwinell,
Wright & Co.
Mr. Dwinell was actively identified
with the affairs of Winchester, and
was respected and loved by all who
knew him.
He served in the General Court, hav
ing been a member of both the House
and Senate. He was on the com
mittee appointed to investigate the
feasibility of a system of waterworks
in Winchester, and a member of the
Water Board for construction of same.
He was chairman for many 3'ears of
the Winchester Water Board, and
president of the Winchester Savings
Bank. He was a 3 2d degree Mason,
member of William Parkman Lodge,
F, and A. M., Woburn R. A. Chapter,
and Boston Commandery, K. T. :
member of the Calumet Club, Win
chester, and of the Middlesex and
Republican clubs.
He married Miss Martha C. Mason,
b3' whom he had three children, James
H., Emil}' F., and Martha A., who
died January, 1878. Mr. Dwinell
died in Winchester, Nov, 8, 1898,
THEODORE CLARENCE
HURD, clerk of Courts of Middlesex
County, was born in Newton, Mass.,
Jan. 19, 1837, his parents being Wil
liam and Sarah (Barber) Hurd. He
attended Framingham Academv,
Union College, and was graduated
from the Harvard Law School. Mr.
ITurd was admitted to the Middlesex
Bar in i860, and from 1866 to 1872
was assistantdistrict attorne\' of Middle-

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THEODORE C. HURD.
sex County. He was selectman in
Framingham from 1865 to 1870, and
was representative to the General
Court from Framingham, 1867-1872.
In 1872 Mr. Hurd was clerk of Courts
of Middlesex County, which position
he has held to the present time. In
1874 ^^ w^s Alderman in Cambridge.
Mr. ITurd served as lieutenant, Com
pany F, 45th Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteers, in the Civil War, and
was judge advocate, department of
North Carolina.
He is a member of the Calumet
Club, Loyal Legion United States,
and belongs to the G. A. R.
LOUIS ROSCOE WALLIS was
born in Beverly, Mass., Oct. 5, 1868,
being the son of Henry B. and Caro
line L. ( Tyler) Wallis. He gradu
ated from the public schools in that
city, entering active business life in
1886.

Mr. Wallis is treasurer and man
ager of the Woburn Light, Heat, and
Power Company, with which business
he has been connected since 1897. He
has been identified with electrical in
dustries since 1888, having been con
nected with the Bernstein Electric
Company of Boston ; New England
manager of the Buckeye Electric
Company of Cleveland, Ohio ; man
ager of the Citizens' Gas Light Com
pany, of Wakefield, Mass. ; assistant
treasurer of the Electric Power Com
pany of Staten Island, N. Y. ; and
treasurer of the Winnepesaukee Gas
and Electric Light Company of La-
conia, N. H. He is a member of
Wm. Parkman Lodge A. F. and A.
M., Woburn Ro3'al Arch Chapter,
Calumet and Winchester Boat clubs.
Mr. Wallis married Miss Ella
Theodosia Scoullar, and the3' have
one daughter, Portia Evelyn Wallis.

LOUIS R. \\'ALLIS.

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HERBERT SHAPLEIGH UN
DERWOOD, managing editor of the
Boston Advertiser and Record, was
born at Fort Edward, N. Y., on June 5,
1861, his parents being Jarvis A. and
Eunice Underwood. He was gradu
ated from William College in 1883,
and became at once city editor of the
Amsterdam, N. Y., Democrat (rep.),
remaining until December, 1884 ;
January, 1885 to January, 1886, was
New England editor of the Spring
field Republican, and Januar3-, 1886
to June, 1886, its legislative reporter.
From June, 1886 to December, 1886,
was political reporter of the Boston
Advertiser, and from December, 1886
to August, 1888, its Washington corre
spondent. From August, 1888 to the
present time the managing editor of
the ^\dvertiser and the Record, of
which he is also a part owner. Mr.
Underwood is a member of the Uni
versity Club of Boston, 20th Century

HERBERT S. UNlMCRWOOD.

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LOUIS BARTA.
Club, Winchester Golf Club, and the
Winchester Boat Club. He was mar
ried June, 1889 to Helen M. Coffin.
Married, February, 1893, Mary G.
Lanman, and November, 1899, "i^r-
ried Anne D. Bradbury. He has a
son, Sanford, aged twelve.
LOUIS BARTA (The Barta
Press), printer, is a nati^'e of Boston,
Mass., where he was born No\'. 24,
1854. After attending the public schools
of Boston he entered the employ of
Gardner Brewer & Co. From there
he went to the Forbes Lithograph
Manufacturing Company. In 1880 a
partnership was formed with Lorin F.
Deland to carry on the printing busi
ness, under the style of Deland &
Barta. They separated in 1886, Mr.
Barta continuing the business. He
served the Calumet Club as president
during the years 1891 and 1892, and

is a member of William Parkman
Lodge, Woburn Royal Arch Chapter,
De Molay Commandery, Orient Coun
cil ; a member of Boston Typothetee
and Exchange Club, Boston ; Reform
and Sphin.x Clubs, New York, and
holds life membership in the Massa
chusetts Charitable Mechanic Associa
tion. In 1879 he married Mary Jane
Wallace, and the3' have four children.
May W., C. Elinor, L. Winthrop, and
Elliot. Mr. Barta has been a resident of
Winchester for the past fifteen years.
SAMUEL WALKER McCALL,
member of Congress, is the son of
Henry and Mary Ann (ElHott)
McCall. He was born in East Provi
dence, Pa., Feb. 28, 1851, and
received his education at the New
Hampton (N. H.) Academy, from
which he graduated in 1870, and at
Dartmouth College, where he gradu
ated in 1874. M'"- McCall is a lawyer
by profession, but for a time was
editor-in-chief of the Boston Daily
Advertiser. He is author of the
"Life of Thaddeus Stevens," in Ameri
can Statesman series, and has con
tributed to the Atlatitic Monthly and
other magazines. He represented
Winchester and Arlington in the
Massachusetts Legislature in 1888,
1889, and 1892. His most important
committee position was the chairman
ship of the judiciary. In 1892 Mr.
McCall was elected to the National
House of Representatives from the
Eighth Massachusetts District, and re
elected in 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1900.
He is a member of the Committee on
Ways and Means and of the Library

SAMUEL W. McCALL.
Committee, and has served on com
mittees on elections, judiciaiy, educa
tion, and immigration. He was elected
a district delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1888, and a
delegate at large from Massachusetts
to the convention in 1900. He was
also chairman of the Committee on
Resolutions of the Massachusetts Re
publican Convention in 1892, and was
president of the convention in 1896.
Mr. McCall delivered an oration on
Daniel Webster at the Centennial cele
bration of Webster's graduation from
Dartmouth College, Sept. 25, 1901,
and on the same da3' the college con
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor
of Laws. Mr. McCall married Ella
E. Thompson, the daughter of Sumner
Shaw and Harriet Stark (Wile3')
Thompson. Their children have all
been born in Winchester, their names
being Sumner T., Ruth, Henr3',
Katherine, and Margaret.

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LEWIS C. PATTEE.
LEWIS CASS PATTEE was born
in Canaan, N. H., Nov. 24, 1832, the
son of Daniel, Jr., and Judith (Bur
leigh) Pattee, and the grandson of
Captain Asa Pattee, one of the first
settlers of that town, who removed
there from Warner.
Mr. Pattee received a good Eng
lish education, and upon attaining
manhood engaged in the lumber busi
ness in Canaan and Enfield, and later
removed to Lebanon, where he
resided until his removal to Win
chester, about eleven years ago.
He was a member of the Pattee
Plow Compan3?, at Monmouth, 111.,
which is extensiveH' engaged in the
manufacture of agricultural imple
ments, and some 3'ears since he en
gaged in railroad investments, and
was a director of the Concord & Mon
treal Railroad, and a large owner of
its stock.
He had, in recent 3'ears, spent sev-

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eral winters at Riverside in southern
California, where he was interested
in orange culture.
Mr. Pattee actively identified him
self with the interests of Winchester,
and was president of the Cooperative
Tank, trustee of the Savings Bank,
nd chairman of the Board of Select-
len. He was a liberal supporter of
le Unitarian Church, whose fine
one edifice was erected by the com-
littee of which he was chairman.
Mr. Pattee was a member of the
Calumet Club, and during his resi
dence in Lebanon, N. H., he was a
prominent Mason and member of the
Knight Templars.
In 1858 he was married to Miss
Rebecca Perley, of Enfield, and they
had six children, only two surviving,
Miss Alice R. Pattee and Fred L.
Pattee. Mr. Pattee died in Win
chester, Nov. 29, 1900.
CHARLES WILLIAM BRAD-
STREET, Selectman, is a native of
Newburyport, Mass., where he was
born June 9, 1833, his parents being
Charles and Sarah A. (Xoves)
Bradstreet. He was educated in the
public schools of Newbuiyport, and
began business there, being first em
ployed by C. W. Davenport, dry
goods merchant, in 1849.
In 1850 he came to Boston with E.
T. Hardy, who opened a dr3' goods
store on Hanover Street. Here he
remained till May, 185 1, when he
entered the emplo3' of Sargent, Gun
nison, carriage builders. No. 14 Sud
bury Street. In Januaiy, 1862, Mr.
Bradstreet formed a copartnership with
the late William P. Sargent, which
succeeded Sargent, Gunnison & Co.

CHARLES W. BRADSTREET.
In 1897, after a successful career,
Mr. Bradstreet retired from active
business. He has been trustee of the Homes
Savings Bank of Boston for over
twenty-five years, charter stockholder
in the International Trust Company
of Boston, warden of the Episcopal
Church, Winchester, and a member of
Joseph Warren Lodge, St. Andrews
Chapter, and of the De Molay Com
mandery of Knights Templars, Bos
ton. He has been a member of the
Board of Cemetery Commissioners
for five years, and has served success
fully on the Board of Selectmen since
1901. Mr. Bradstreet was married March
6, 1867, to Miss Alprusia A. Wal
ker, daughter of the late Col.
Benjamin P. Walker of Claremont,
N. H.

WILLIAM CRABB NEWELL,
Town Auditor, is the son of Charles
Stark and Alice Jane (Crabb) New
ell. ITe was born in Lawrence,
Mass., July 6, 1852, and was edu
cated at Trinity School, New York
Cit3', preparatory to entering Colum
bia Law School, in the meantime
reading law in the office of his father.
During this period Mr. Newell was
in the service of Samuel J. Tilden,
and when Mr. Tilden was elected
governor of New York, he was called
by him to fill an important position at
Albany. At the close of Governor
Tilden's administration, his succes
sor, Lucius Robinson, retained him
throughout his entire term. Mr.
Newell then removed to Boston, where
he began the practise of his profes
sion, expert accountant.
In 1889 he removed to Winchester,
where he became a member of the

WILLIAM C. NEWELL.

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Board of Town i\uditors, and is now
Town Auditor.
He is a Mason, member of the
William Parkman Lodge, and of the
Massachusetts Society, Sons of the
American Revolution.
In 1877 Mr. Newell married Miss
Ellen Augusta Doane, and the3' have
four children, William S., Charles F.,
Carrol D., and Joan S. Mr. Newell
and family reside at one of the pret
tiest homes in Winchester.
SAMUEL WALKER TWOMBLY
was born in Tamworth, N. H., JUI3'
31,1822. His parents were James H.
and Abigal Gilman Twombl3'. Mr.
Twombly has lived in Winchester
more than fifty years, being engaged
in farming, floriculture, and real estate
business. In 1865 he was elected one
of the Selectmen and served in that
capacity for eight years, being chair-

SAMUEL W. TWOMBLY.

ALONZO P. WEEKS.
man two 3'ears. He was assessor five
years and six years president of the
Village Improvement Society. He is
now chairman of the Cemetery Com
mission and superintendent of the
Cemetery. He is a member of the
Calumet Club and Wm. Parkman
Lodge of Masons. Mr. Twombh' was
a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in 187 1, 1900-1901,
being dean of the House the last two
3'ears. He married Miss Eliza Dugan,
and the3' have three children, John D.,
Wm. A., and Fred. W.
ALONZO PAGE WEEKS, banker,
was born at Lawrence, Mass., Feb.
25, 1849. ITis parents, Alpheus and
Laura (Page) Weeks, resided at
Wolfboro, N. H. He was educated
at Salem, Mass., and entered the
Mercantile Bank of that city as clerk
at a comparatively early age ; he also
at this time was clerk and assistant to

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the treasurer of the Salem Street Rail
way. In 1868 he went to Boston in a
private banking house, but soon after
accepted a position in the North Bank,
which was exchanged for a more im
portant one in the Merchants Bank.
Mr. Weeks has been cashier of two
Boston banks, the National Hide and
Leather and the Merchants National.
The last named bank, incorporated in
1831, became the largest bank in New
England and one of the largest in the
country, with a capital of $4,000,000.
In 187 1 he married Emma Chipman,
and the3' have three children, Edith,
Ethel, and Arthur. He came to
Winchester in 1895. He resides in
Rangeley, in what will be known
always as the " Skillings' Mansion."
The house, surrounded by large and
beautiful grounds, and situated in the
center of the town, is one of the most
imposing of Winchester's fine resi-

EDWARD S. BARKER.

JOHN W. RICHARDSON.
dences. Shortly after coming to
Winchester, Mr. Weeks was elected a
trustee, and afterward president of
the Winchester Savings Bank.
EDWARD SPOONER BARKER,
son of Ira T. and Anne (Dean) Barker,
was born in Medford, March 6, 1853,
and received a common school educa
tion. Mr. Barker is manager of a large
life insurance company of New York,
and represents large interests in the
insurance business in Boston.
He is a Knight Templar, 32d degree
Mason, member of Mystic Shrine, Odd
Fellows, and Calumet Club. He mar
ried Miss Lucy M. Morse, they have
two children, George A. and Elsie M.
JOHN WINSLOW RICHARD
SON, postmaster of Winchester, was
born in Woburn, June 15, 1846, his
parents being John S. and L3'dia

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ALFRED NORTON.
Winslow (CoUamore) Richardson.
He received his education in the Win
chester schools and the Warren Acad
emy of Woburn. After leaving school
he was engaged in the provision busi
ness for twent3'-five 3'ears, and was
Chief of Police for thirteen years.
He is a member of Wm. Parkman
Lodge F. and A. M., Woburn Chap
ter, Calumet Club, Knights of Honor,
New England Order of Protection, and
the Republican Club of Massachusetts.
He married Miss Rebecca R. Burn-
ham, and their children are Henry
W., Florence M., Anthony C, and
Edith B.
ALFRED NORTON was born in
Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 23, 1815,
his parents being Joshua and Sarah
Norton. ITe attended the public schools,
Latin School of Boston, and Harvard
College.

In 1837 Colonel Norton was ap
pointed naval officer in the Boston
Custom House, under George Ban
croft, author of the " History of the
United States." He remained in this
office for three years, and then went
into the paper business. From thence
he went back to the Custom House as
Inspector, and is at present the oldest
officer in the customs service.
Colonel Norton bought a large
paper mill in Lawrence, Mass., also
one at Hampden, Me., where he was
engaged in the manufacture of paper.
Colonel Norton has always been
interested in literary affairs, and at
one time gave an interesting address
at the Town Hall in Winchester, on
John Brown's Execution, which was
published in the Woburn Journal.
Colonel Norton has an enviable
war record. He enlisted in the army
of the United States as Captain of
Commissar3-, and was promoted to
major at the Battle of F'redericksburg.
Colonel Norton had the honor of
sitting by the side of President Lincoln
at the dedication of the cemetery at
Gett3'sburg.
GEORGE ADAMS WOODS,
real estate and insurance broker, is
the son of the late George Br^-ant and
Emma L. M. (Adams) Woods, and
was born in Boston, Nov. 2, 1869.
ITe was educated in the public schools
of Medford, Chauncy Hall School,
and Noble's Preparatory School, and
at the age of seventeen entered the
employ of Clark & Canuth, book
sellers. He worked there two years
as a boy and then accepted a position
as salesman in the Old Corner Book
Store, remaining there until 1890,

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GEORGE A. WOODS.
with the exception of a period of six
months, when he was with the Glas
gow Steamship Company in Chicago.
In 1890 he accepted a position in
the Suffolk Savings Bank, where he
remained until September, 1900, when
he resigned to devote all his time to
the real estate and insurance business
in Winchester and Boston.
For six years he was Water Regis
trar and Clerk of the Winchester
Water Board. He was president of
the Calumet Club in 1899, is now
vice-president of the Winchester Boat
Club, and a member of other local
and business organizations.
He was married in 1893 to Miss
Martha Neil Howe, and they have
three children, Josephine, George
Bryant, and Helen M.
JAY BAYARD BENTON, city
editor of the Boston Evcni)ig Tran
script, is the youngest son of Charles

E. and Adda (Chamberlin) Benton.
He received his education at Lan
caster (N. IT.) Academy, St, Johns-
bury (Vt.) Academ3', and Dartmouth
College, from which he was graduated
in 1890, and in 1893 received the de
gree of A. M. Before entering col
lege Mr. Benton was librarian of the
Young Mens' Institute, New York
Cit3', for one year.
In 1890 he joined the staff of the
Boston Transcript as reporter, and
was promoted to assistant cit3' editor.
In 1894 he accepted a position on the
Boston Journal as assistant managing
editor, where he remained until 1897,
when he returned to the Transcript,
and is now cit3' editor of that paper.
Mr. Benton has also served as press
representative of the Hollis Street and
Colonial theatres, and of the Boston
Museum. .While in college he was a
member of the Theta Delta Chi fra-

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JAY B. BENTON.

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ternity and the Phi Beta Kappa. He
is also a member of the Papyrus,
Newspaper, Boston Press, and Dart
mouth clubs. ITe resides at No. 2
Summit Avenue, Winchester.
EDWIN GINN, publisher, was
born in Orland, Maine, Feb. 14, 1838,
and is the son of James and Sarah
(Blood) Ginn. His father, James
Ginn, was among the leading men of
his yicinit3', and especially noted for
his probity and practical business
abilit3'. The bo3''s educational ten
dencies were largely inherited from
his mother, and his practical business
ability from his father. At the age
of nine he performed man3' of the
practical duties on his father's farm ;
at thirteen went into a logging camp
and cooked for a crew of men ; at
fourteen went as a fisherman to the
Grand Banks, in the hope of benefiting
his health, and at sixteen his father
gave him $50 and his time to secure
an education. Teaching school win
ters, working on the farm, and going
to the Grand Banks in the summer,
he was enabled to enter Tufts College
at the age of twent3'-one. His pre-
liminaiy work was mainly at West-
brook Seminary. When in the middle
of his college course his e3'es began
to fail him, and he was advised to
quit his studies, but thanks to his
classmates, who kindly read his les
sons to him, he was enabled to gradu
ate with his regular class.
On leaving college he engaged in
a small wa3' in a school-book agenc3',
buying his books outright, and thus
was under obligation to no one. For
three years he was in this line of
work, until the publishing house of

EDWIN GINN.
Crosby, Ainsworth & Co. offered him
the publishing rights of Craik's Eng
lish of Shakespeare. He readily ac
cepted this proposition and met with
such success that it also brought him
the Messrs. Allen's Latin Grammar
and other books b3' the same authors.
On the publication of Dr. Goodwin's
Greek Grammar, which he also
handled, Mr. Ginn secured an en
trance into nearly all of the best
schools of the countiy. Since then
he has been foremost in educational
works. Mr. Ginn was married in
1869 to Miss Clara Glover, who died
in 1890, leaving three children, Jessie,
Maurice, and Clara Ginn, In 1893
he was married to Miss Francesca
Grebe. Two children have been
born to them, Edwin, Jr., and Mar-
guerita C.
Mr. Ginn and his family reside in
a beaudful house situated on Bacon
Street near the Wedgemere Station.

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ABRAHAM BURBANK COF
FIN, lawyer, was born in Gilead,
Oxford County, Maine, March 31,
183 1, son of Warren Coffin, a native
of Bethel, Maine, and Hannah (Bur-
bank) Coffin, born in Gilead. His
early education was acquired in acade
mies at Bedford and Nashua, N. H.,
his father having moved in 1833 to
Londonderry in that State, where he
became an extensive and successful
farmer. He was fitted for college at
Phillips Academ}', Andover, Mass.,
and graduated from Dartmouth in 1856.
Three others from Winchester were
members of the class during some
part of the course, namely, Thomas
Emerson, Oliver P. Rogers, and
Augustus Cutter. Subsequentl3', he
studied law in Virginia, and in 1858
was admitted to the Bar- in Richmond,
Va. Then returning to Winchester,
after another year's study in the office
of the late John P. Healey, of Boston,
he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar,
and from that time he has been en
gaged in the general practice of the
law with offices at 27 School Street,
Boston. In the early years of his
practice he also had an office in Stone
ham, where he held the office of Trial
Justice. Formerl3' he was master of
the high school in that town. Mr.
Coffin was a member of the lower
house of the Legislature in 1875,
when he held the chairmanship of the
Committee on Elections ; was State
Senator in 1877-78, serving in each
year as chairman of the Committee
on Taxation, and on the Judiciary
Committee ; a member of Governor
Robinson's Council in 1885-86 ; and
chairman of the State Board of Gas
and Electric Light Commissioners

ABRAHAM B. COFFIN.
from 1887 to 1891. He was for a
time a member of the School Com
mittee, and for many years chairman
of the Town Board of Health. In
politics Mr. Coffin is a Republican.
He was married Aug. 16, 1888, to
Mary E. Stevens, daughter of Junius
M. and Elizabeth Lyon Stevens of
Boston. He is a member of William
Parkman Lodge of Masons, the Calu
met Club of Winchester, the Middle
sex Club, the Pine Tree Club, Massa
chusetts Horticultural Society, the
Society for Psychical Research of
London, Sons of the American Revo
lution, and the Boston Bar Associa
tion.
ALFRED STEVENS HALL,
lawyer, was born in West Westminster,
Vt., April 14, 1850, his parents being
Edward and Frances A. (Tuttle)
Hall. He graduated at Kimball
Union Academy in 1869, and then

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GEORGE L. HUNTRESS.
entered Dartmouth College, where he
graduated in 1873. He then attended
the Boston University Law School,
from which he graduated in 1875.
Mr. Hall was admitted to the Suffolk
Bar Dec. 20, 1875, and has prac
tised law in Boston since Jan. i, 1876.
He has held several offices in the
town of Winchester since his years of
residence here, having moved to the
town in October, 1876.
He married Miss Annette M. Hitch
cock, of Putne3', Vt., in 1876. She
died in 1887, leaving one son, Fran
cis C. Hall, and a daughter, ITelen
A. Flail, both living. In 1895 he
married Miss Delia R. Rannev of his
native town.
GEORGE LEWIS FIUNTRESS,
son of James L. and Harriet P. Hunt
ress, was born in Lowell, Mass.,
April 4, 1848. He was fitted for col
lege at Phillips Academ3-, Andover,

Mass., was graduated from Yale Col
lege in 1870, attended the Harvard
Law School, 1870 to 1871, and was
admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1872.
Mr. Huntress was a member of the
Boston Common Council in 1880 and
18S1, and became a resident of Win
chester in 1884. He is a member of
the Winchester Water Board, 1898 to
1904, and is a member of the Univer-
sit3', Tiffin, and E.xchange clubs of
Boston. Mr. Huntress is now the
senior member of the law firm of
Huntress & Albers, having offices in
the Sears Building, Boston. In 1875
he married Julia A. Poole of Metu-
chen, N. J., and they have two chil
dren, Harold P. and George L., Jr.
HARRY AMOS WHEELER,
son of Henry W. and Annie P. (Mc-
Near) Wheeler, was born in Roxbur3',
Jan. 14, 1866. After graduating
from the Boston High School he en-

H.\RRY A. WHEELER.

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HENRY J. WINDE.
tered the glass business as a boy and
worked his way up in different firms,
until he is now president of the
Wheeler-Stenzel Company, a large
Massachusetts Corporation, Importers
and Jobbers of Plate and Window
Glass, etc. Mr. Wheeler is a member
of the First Congregational Church,
the Calumet Club, and the Aberjona
Council, R. A. of Winchester. He
married Carrie F. Emerson and they
have one child living, Maynard E.
HENRY JAMES WINDE, lumber
dealer, the son of Lewis and Eliza
Winde, was born in Boston, Oct. 6,
1845, and attended the public schools
of Chelsea, Mass. Mr. Winde has
had an honorable record during the
Civil War, having served in the United
States Navy as mate and acdng ensign,
and was honorably discharged in
1867. During the time of his service
he was attached to the United States

Ships Savannah, Buckthorn, Cayuga,
Stiff Iv, V'criuoiit, and De Soto. Mr.
Winde has served the town of Win
chester as Selectman in 1897, 1898,
and 1899, and has been on the
Cemetery Committee of 1900 and
1902. He is a member of Post 35,
Department Massachusetts, G. A. R.,
Wm. Parkman Lodge F. and A. M.,
and Waterfield Lodge I. O. O. F.

Mr. Winde was married in 1869 to
L. Alice Lowe, of Boxford, Mass.,
who died Dec. 12, 1877, and was
married a second time, in 1881, to Sara
Case, of Jerse3' City, N. J. His chil
dren are Harry W. and Lawrence L.
Winde, and his stepson Wilbur R.
Case. JAY TEMPLE UNDERHILL
was born in Nashua, N. H., Nov. 16,
1849, '^"'^ moved to Winchester in
1875. His parents were Rufus K. and
Eluthera D. Underhifl. After finish-

JAY T. UNDERHILL.

47

ing his education at Pinkerton Acad
emy, Deny, N. IT. at the age of
twenty 3'ears, he began to learn the
edge tool trade, and as the Underbills
were among the first to take up this
branch of manufactures in this country
one hundred and fifty years ago, and
having a natural ability for working
steel with the experience of two cen
turies in this same line before him, he
now has the reputation of making the
best steel hatchets of an3' manufactur
ers of this class of tools in the countiy.
Mr. Underbill became a member of
the First Baptist Church in 1887, and
has served on various cotnmittees. He
was one of the first to organize the
Young Men's Christian Association,
a member of the Knights of P3'thias,
and the R. A. He married Caroline
D. Floyd and they have four chil
dren, Rufus E., Florence, Delia E.,
and Chester J.
JAMES HENRY WINN was born
in Burlington, Mass., July 24, 1845,
his parents being Samuel F. and Lucy
Tufts (Cutter) Winn. He worked in
John Cummings & Co.'s leather man-
ufactor3' when fourteen 3'ears of age,
and at the age of eighteen went to
serve three years to learn the machin
ist's trade with Sibley & Woodbur3' at
Stony Brook, Waltham, Mr. J. A.
Woodbury of this town being a mem
ber of the firm. In 1868 Mr. Winn
went into partnership with B. A.
Goodell, of Waltham, for the purpose
of manufacturing watch hands, and
was associated with him until 1896,
when his son, Frank W. Winn,
bought out Mr Goodell's interest, and
since then the business has been car
ried on under the firm name of J. H.

JAMES H. WINN.
Winn & Son. This concern is the
only company in the United States
that makes a specialty of making
watch hands. They suppl3' manufac
turers only, and have for customers
nearly all the watch manufacturers in
the United States. Mr. Winn is the
inventor and patentee of the Calumet
Ball Retarder for bowling alleys, of
which a great many are in use all
over the country. He has served the
town of Winchester six 3'ears as
Selectman, one year as Street Com
missioner, and one year as Overseer
of the Poor. ITe is a member of the
Unitarian Church, F. & xA. Masons,
and Calumet Club. Mr. Winn mar
ried Julia A. Cummings. of Millbuiy,
Mass., and they have five children,
Arthur L., Frank W., AnnaL., Harry
T., and Helen F. He has lived in
Winchester with his familv' since 1872.
Mr. Winn has always been deeply in
terested in the welfare of Winchester.

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BENJAMIN TAYLOR
CHURCH, M. D., the oldest practi
tioner in Winchester, was born in
Providence, R. I., on Nov. 9, 1839,
his parents being Benjamin T. and
Sarah C. (Peck) Church.
He attended the public schools at
Providence, R. I., and afterwards
came to Boston in 1857, where he was
engaged as clerk in the drug store of
Henry A. Choate, under the old
Revere House. In i860 he became
a partner with Mr. Choate, opening a
drug store on the corner of Beacon
and Tremont Streets. Dr. Church
afterwards took up the stud3' of medi
cine and was graduated from Dart
mouth College, and settled in Boston
until 1878, when he came to Win
chester where he has been success
fully practising ever since.
He is the chairman of the Board of
Health, having been a member since

FRANK W. WINN.

benja:min t. church.
1889. He is a member of the Mass
achusetts Homeopathic Society, Bos
ton Homeopathic Society, New Eng-
1 a n d Hahnemann Society, and the
Calumet Club of Winchester. In
1866 Dr. Church married Miss
Adaline Barnard of Boston, also a
physician, and for many years a mem
ber of the facult3' of the Boston Uni
versity School of Medicine.
Dr. Church resides with his family
at Rangeley.
JACOB CLARK STANTON was
born in Roxbur3', Mass., Oct. 15,
1834, being the son of Jacob C. and
Nanc3' (Cook) Stanton.
Mr. Stanton has been a long time
in business in Winchester and has
been identified with the growth and
prosperit3' of the town. He has
served the town in the office of asses
sor, and was a member of the Unita
rian Church, Mason Fraternit3', and a

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NATHANIEL ,\. RICHARDSON.
charter member of the William Park-
man Lodge.
Mr. Stanton was married to Miss
Sarah Symmes of Winchester. Mr.
Stanton died in Winchester, Jan. lo,
1902. NATHANIEL A. RICHARD
SON, one of the first citizens of Win
chester, was born in Woburn, Aug-.
29, 1820, his parents being Jesse
and Lora Stevens Richardson. ITe
received his education in the common
schools and has been engaged suc
cessfully in the business of auctioneer
broker, farmer, and real estate. Mr.
Richardson is of the seventh genera
tion from Samuel Richardson, one of
the first settlers of Woburn in 1640.
The farm he is living on having been
in the family since that time. He has
been interested in history, biography,
genealogy, and political events, and
has made many speeches and traveled

in most of the States. He has always
been very deeply interested in the
prosperity of Winchester and has
held many responsible offices in the
government of the town. He has
been representative to the General
Court, postmaster, selectman, as
sessor, tax collector, town treas
urer, superintendent of streets,
commissary of subsistence in the
Civil War, and weigher of the Boston
Custom House. He was also a promi
nent member of the Historical Society
at the time of its existence. Mr.
Richardson married Hannah Hall, and
they have had six children, all but one,
Viola Alice, being dead. Mr. Rich
ardson, although over eight3'-one 3'ears
of age, is active in town affairs, and
is always a familiar figure at the
Winchester town meetings.
GEORGE NATHANIEL
PLUMER MEAD, M. D., was born
in Concord, N. H., Feb. 18, 1859,
his parents being Nathaniel J. and
C3'nthia (Plumer) Mead.
He attended the Everett public
schools, graduated from the high
school, and afterwards attended the
Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard
College, and the Harvard Medical
School. He afterwards became house
surgeon in the Free Hospital for
Women, house surgeon to the Boston
Lying-in Hospital, and surgeon of
the Whidden Memorial Hospital of
Everett. He was a member of the school
committee of Ex-erett from 1889 to
1896, and trustee of the Winchester
Savings Bank. ITe is a member of the
Caluinet Club, Golf Club, and Boat
Club of Winchester and censor of

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>i^

SAMUEL B. WHITE.
the Massachusetts Medical Society,
and vestryman of the Church of the
Epiphany. He married Miss Jenny H. M.
Lemann, and they have had two chil
dren, George J. and Doris N. (de
ceased). SAMUEL BARTLETT WHITE,
merchant, is the son of Samuel B.
and Sarah (Richardson) White. He
was born in South Woburn, now
Winchester, Jan. 14, 1827. After
receiving a common school education,
he attended the Warren Academy at
Woburn, and at the age of fourteen,
engaged in the grocery business in
Winchester. At nineteen years of
age he entered the employ of the
Boston & Lowell Railroad, where he
remained until he was thirty-two, after
which he was engaged in the grocery
business in Boston for six 3'ears.
In 1865 he engaged with his

brother in the fancy leather and
glove business under the firm name
of White Bros,, which in 1880 was
changed to the firm name of White
Bros, & Sons. In 1887 that firm
was dissolved and he with Mr. Frank
M. White, his son, formed the firm
of White Son & Co., and engaged in
the business of importing and dealing
in fancy leathers and bookbinders'
materials. In 1893 this business was
changed into a corporation, under the
Massachusetts laws, as White Son
Company. Mr. White is a descend
ant of the old family of Richardson
which first settled in South Woburn
in 1640.
Mr. White has two children, Frank
M. and Mrs. Clara L. Pond.
LOUIS GODDU, inventor, was
born at St. Cesaire, Canada, Oct.
I, 1837, his parents being Augustus
and Ester Goddu. He is a life mem-

LOUIS GODDU.

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ber of the Mechanics Charitable Asso
ciation and has been a resident of
Winchester for thirty-one years.
Mr. Goddu has always been identi
fied with the best interests of Win
chester, and has been the means of
bringing a number of citizens into the
town through the building of the
McKay shops. He was married to
Miss Rosana Roy. Their children
are: Rozana E., Lane, Louis H.,
Eloie, Napoleon, William, Vienna G.,
Preston, George, and Eda.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS
BRACKETT, Massachusetts State
Commissioner of Fisheries and Game,
is a native of Maine, born in Vassal
boro, Oct. I, 1818, son of Reuben and
Elizabeth (Starkey) Brackett.
He was educated in the common
schools and at the Friends' Academy
at Providence, R. I. His early life
was devoted to sculpture, and some
of his best works were busts of Wil
liam Henry Harrison, Senator Tal-
mage, Benjamin F. Butler, John
Brown, Washington Allston, Wendell
PhiUips, William Lloyd Garrison,
and the group " The Shipwrecked
Mother and Child." He served in the
early part of the Civil War, ap
pointed by Governor Andrew first
lieutenant and battalion quartermaster
of the First Massachusetts Cavaliy,
Oct. 25, 1861, and mustered into the
service December 4, following. In
March, 1862, he resigned in conse
quence of the reorganization of the
cavalry by act of Congress. He was
first appointed one of the State Com
mission on Inland Fisheries in June,
1869, and has held the office ever since,
a period of some thirty-three 3'ears.

EDWARD A. BRACKETT.

From 1873 to 1899 he was chairman
and executive officer of the board, and
wrote the annual reports from 1872 to
the last named date.
He is the inventor of a fishwa3'
which has always been successful
even over the highest dams, and of
hatching trays that are in universal
use. In politics he is a Republican.
He has been twice married ; first, in
1842, to Miss Folger, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and second, in 1872, to Miss
Bellville, of Mt. Washington, Ohio.
He has two sons and three daughters :
Frank D., Walter F., Lena R. (now
Mrs. H. E. Wellington), Bessie R.
(Mrs. Charles S. Parker), and
Bertha E. (Mrs. Josef Sandberg).
FRED V. WOOSTER was born
in Brewer, Maine, Feb. 22, 1851, his
parents being Benjamin and Drusilla
A. Wooster, his mother being a de
scendant of Commodore Peny. He

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received his education in the public
schools of Bangor, Maine, and was
afterwards for many years in Boston,
engaged in the business of hardware
manufacture. In recent years he
has been engaged in insurance busi
ness, and is especially successful and
well informed in regard to it. Mr.
Wooster is now chairman of the
Sewer Board, and has been a mem
ber of it from the beginning of sewer
work in the town in 1893-94, and has
also been a member of several town
committees. Mr. Wooster has been
identified with the best interests of
Winchester, and is always seeking to
promote the welfare of the town in
every practical way. He is a member
of William Parkman Lodge, Aber
jona Council, R. A., Baptist Church,
and founder of the local Y. M. C. A.
He married Miss Adah C. Marston,
of Bangor, Maine, June 12, 1873.

FRED V. WOOSTER.

JOSEPH H. TYLER.
JOSEPH HOWE TYLER was
born in Pelham, N. H., on Feb. 11,
1825, and was a prominent citizen of
Winchester from 1870 until his death
in 1892.
He was the son of John and Je
mima M. (Howe) Tyler, fitted for col
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., graduated from Dartmouth
College in 185 1, then studied law in
Lowell, was admitted to the Bar in
1854, ^nd began practice in Cam
bridge, where he lived until 1870.
He was register of probate and
insolvency for Middlesex County
from 1858 until his death in 1892, a
member of the Common Council in
1862-63, of the Board of Aldermen,
1864-65, of the School Board, 1868
-69-70, all in Cambridge, presi
dent of the Cambridge Street Rail
road Company, director of the Cam
bridge Nadonal Bank, trustee of
the East Cambridge Savings Bank,

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JOHN W. SUTER.
and trustee of the Cambridge Public
Library. Upon taking up his residence in
Winchester in 1870, he became a
member of the Winchester School
Board, remaining a member for three
years. He was also a member and
president of the Winchester Historical
society. He married Abbie L. Hitchcock in
1858 and left two children, Charles
H. and Gertrude E. T3'ler.
JOHN WALLACE SUTER was
born in Boston, Dec. i, 1859, the
son of Hales Wallace and Emily
(Bingham) Suter. He was gradu
ated at Harvard in 1881, and at the
Episcopal Theological School, Cam

bridge, in I

He has resided in

Winchester for seventeen years. Mr.
Suter has been rector of the Church
of the Epiphany since JUI3', 1885, and
during this period he has also held the

rectorship at different times of Trin
ity, Woburn ; Our Redeemer, Lex
ington; and St. James, Somerville.
He is instructor in ecclesiastical his
tory this year, 1901-02, at the Epis
copal Theological School, Cambridge.
He was for thirteen years a member
of the Winchester School Committee.
He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi
and Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, of
other Harvard Societies, also of the
University Club, Boston, and of the
Calumet Club of Winchester. Mr.
Suter married in 1888 Miss Helen
Jenkins and has two sons, Phillip
Hales and John Wallace, Jr.
HOVEY LEARNED SHEP
HERD, M. D., son of Freeman W.
and Martha (Dodge) Shepherd, was
born in Belfast, Maine, Aug. 16,
1869. He attended Kent's Hill Semi
nary, graduating in the class of i^

HOVEV L. SHEPHERD.

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CHARLES N. BACON.
He afterwards entered Boston Univer
sity, where he was graduated from the
College of Liberal Arts in 1892 and
from the Medical School in 1895.
Dr. Shepherd first practised medicine
in Springfield, Mass., and later came
to Winchester. He is at the present
time lecturer of Materia Medica in
Boston University Medical School.
ITe is a member of the New England
Alumni Association of the Delta Tau
Delta Fraternity, Boston Homeopathic
Medical Society, Calumet Club,
William Parkman Lodge, F. & A. M.,
past regent and medical examiner
of Aberjona Council, R. A. Dr.
Shepherd was married in 1895 to
Miss Mandana Snow, and they have
two children, Ruth and Eltinge,
CHARLES NEWCOMB BACON,
manufacturer, was born in Medford,
Mass., Dec. 2, 1838, his parents be
ing John H. and Sarah A. (Tyrell)

Bacon. He was educated at Chauncy
Hall School, Boston, and afterwards
engaged in the business of manufac
turing felting, his works being in
Winchester. Mr. Bacon has always
been interested in the welfare of
Winchester, although he has never
held public office. He is a member
of the Mechanics' Charitable Associ
ation of Boston. Mr. Bacon married
Florence L. Holbrook, and they have
had seven children: Florence A.,
Lillian L., Charles F., Louis A.,
Cyrus C, Robert, and Mabelle G.
Bacon. Three of Mr. Bacon's sons
are now engaged in the manufacture
of felting in Winchester.
JAMES WILLIAM RUSSELL
was born in Somerville, Mass., Oct. 18,
1844, being the son of William A.
and Harriet Hill Russell. He gradu
ated from the Medford High School,
and afterwards took up the profession

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JAMES W. RUSSELL.

of market gardening. Mr. Russell
has been identified for some time with
the affairs of the town of Winchester,
and has also been interested in any
thing conducive to the best interests
of the town. He married Miss Ella
Symmes, and they have four children,
Alice S., Fred A., James W., and
Bertha L.
MARSHALL SYMMES, one of
the oldest citizens of Winchester, was
born in Medford, now Winchester,
Oct. 27, 1818, his parents being Mar
shall and Lephe Stowell Symmes.
He is of the seventh generation from
Zachariah Symmes, who came to
America in 1634. Mr. Symmes
learned the trade of blacksmith, in
which he was engaged for twenty
years. Since i860 he has been a
market gardener. He has held a
number of important offices in the
town of Winchester, being a member

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k Vi

SAMUEL S. SYMMES.

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MARSHALL SYMMES.
of the School Committee in 1852,
Assessor in 1853 and 1856, Superin
tendent of Streets in 1863. He is
a member of the Unitarian Church of
Winchester. He married Miss Abbie
Stowell, of Worcester, Mass., June 17,
1846. They have six children living :
Frederick M., Ella L. (now Mrs.
J. W. Russell), Walter F., Anna E.,
Samuel S., Abbie E. (now Mrs.
Alfred S. Hall). Two children died
in infancy, Frances L., Aug. 25,
1849; Albert H., April 28, 1861.
SAMUEL STOWELL SYMMES
was born in Winchester, Mass., Oct.
22, 1858, son of Marshall and Abby S.
Symmes. He was educated at the
Winchester High School and Bridge-
water Normal School, and afterward
entered the business of market gar
dening in Winchester. Mr. Symmes
has been a member of the school

committee for fourteen 3'ears, from
1888 to 1902, a director of the Win
chester Co-operative Bank for eight
years, 1894 to 1902. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Forestiy Asso
ciation and Unitarian Church. Mr.
Symmes first married Miss Jennie
Metcalf, a daughter of Robert C.
Metcalf, who died on Sept. 13, 1887.
On March 5, 1895 he married Miss
Minerva R. Johnson. He has four
children, Laurence M., Elizabeth,
Samuel S., Jr., and Russell.
FREDERICK MARSHALL
SYMMES, son of Marshall and Aba-
gail Stowell Symmes, was born in
Winchester, Mass., Aug. 13, 1850.
He attended the public schools of
Winchester, and Warren Academy,
Woburn, and afterwards engaged in
the business of market gardening.
Mr. Symmes was sewer commis-

FREDERICK M. SYMMES.

FRANK A. CUTTING.
sioner in 1901, and chief of the fire
department in 1892, '93, and '94.
He is a member of William Parkman
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Waterfield
Lodge, No. 231, I. O. O. F., and the
Calumet Club of Winchester. He
married his cousin, Miss Addie M.
Symmes, and the3' have two children,
Robert Marshall and Ruth Stowed
Symmes. FRANK ALEXIS CUTTING,
merchant, the son of Alexis C. and
Esther R. (Hill) Cutting, was born
in Washington, N. IT., Aug. 16,
1855. He attended the public schools
at Lebanon, N. H., and Winchester,
Mass. In 1875, ^f the age of twenty,
he went to Canada and commenced
business as a shipper of hemlock
bark. Mr. Cutdng resided nine years
in Canada, then returned to Winches
ter. He commenced business in a
small way and has built up a growing

il

FRANCIS H. HARDING.
and successful trade. He was presi
dent of the Calumet Club in 1901,
chairman of the standing committee
of the Unitarian Church of 1901, and
is now president of the Middlesex
County National Bank. He is a
member of the Calumet Club, Win
chester, and Unitarian Club, Boston,
and the Masonic Lodge of Winchester.
He married Miss Anna M. Shaw
and their children are : Spencer
Alexis, Marjorie, Robert Hill, Alice,
and Esther Cutting.
FRANCIS HERBERT HARD
ING, D. M. D., was born in Well-
fleet, Mass., Oct. 8, 1865, his parents
being Calvin F. and Betsey (Doane)
Harding. After spending six years in Cali
fornia and Arizona engaged in various
mining enterprises, Dr. Harding came
to Harvard University, where he took
the degree in dentistry, afterwards be

coming instructor in operative dentistry
to the senior class at Harvard. Since
coming to Winchester, Dr. Harding
has built up a growing and lucrative
practice. ITe is a member of the William
Parkman Lodge, Masons, Harvard
Odontological Society, Harvard Den
tal Alumni Association, Deta Signa
Delta Society, Gamma Chapter of
Harvard University, Calumet Club of
Winchester, Winchester Boat Club,
and the Winchester Gun Club.
Dr. Harding married Miss Emma
C. Hooker, of Brookline.
CLARENCE JEAN ALLEN,
M, D., was born at Pomfret, Vt.,
July 24, 1853, his parents being Ed
win and Ruth (Keith) Aden.
He was graduated from the medical
department of the University of Ver
mont in 1884 '^"'^ afterwards practised
medicine in Waitsfield, Vt. He then

ALLIiN.

HENRY F. JOHNSON.
took a postgraduate course in New
York City, and from 1889 to 1898 he
practised in Peterboro, N. H., after
wards locating in Winchester.
Dr. Allen was a member of the
School Board of Waitsfield, Vt., from
1886 to 1889, a member of the Li
brary Trustees of Peterboro, N. H.,
from 1892 to 1898, Board of Health
from 1893 to 1898, a town Auditor
from 1897 to 1898. He is a member
of the Cheshire Count3' Medical So
ciety', New Hampshire State Medical
Society, Massachusetts State Medical
Society, American Medicine Associa
tion, and the Calumet Club of Win
chester. He married Miss Eva O. Joslin and
they have one daughter, Clare Jean.
HENRY FRANCIS JOHNSON,
ex-selectman, was born in that part of
Woburn which was incorporated into
Winchester, April 30, 1850. His birth

day was Jan. 16, 1850. His parents
were Francis Henry and Maria Louisa
(Hutchinson) Johnson. He received
his education in the Winchester
schools and was clerk in the treasurer's
office of the Boston & Lowell Rail
road for twent3' years. Mr. Johnson
has filled many important offices in
the town of Winchester, having
been auditor, park commissioner and
cemetery commissioner for twenty
years, and selectman in 1897, '98,
and '99. Mr. Johnson has always
been interested in town affairs, and
has been active in working for the
good of Winchester. At the present
time he is retired from active business.
He has traveled extensivel3' in this
countrx', Canada, Mexico, and Europe
and is well informed on the customs
of these countries.
WILLIAM RODERICK
McINTOSH, chief of police, is the

WILLIAM R. MCINTOSH.

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son of Duncan R. and Mary A.
Mcintosh, and was born in Woburn,
Mass., March 20, 1859. He was
educated in the common schools, and
then served as clerk in a store for
seventeen years. He was appointed
to the police force in Woburn, Mass.,
May I, 1887. He was patrolman
until 1888, when he was appointed as
chief, and on Oct. i, 1897, he was
appointed chief of police in Winches
ter. He is also sealer of weights and
measures, lockup keeper, and agent for
Society F. P. O. C. A., and Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Mr. Mcintosh's career as chief of
police of Winchester has been one in
which he has served with ability and
distinction. He is a member of the
William Parkman Lodge of Masons,
Woburn Royal Arch Chapter, Hugh
de Payn's Commandery, Knight Tem
plars. He was married in 1890 to
Miss Charlotte A. Sherburne of
Woburn, Mass., and they have two
children, Leah S. and Constance F.
RALPH EDGAR JOSLIN is the
son of James Thomas and Annie
Catherine (Burrage) Joslin, and was
born in Marlborough, now a part of
Hudson, Mass., Aug. 26, 1864. He
attended the public schools of Hudson
and graduated from its high school
in 1882. His education was con
tinued in Tufts College, from which
he graduated with the degree of
A. B. in 1886, and in the Boston Uni
versity School of Law, from which he
graduated in 1888 with the degree of
LL. B. Admitted to the bar in June,
1888, he entered into the general
practice of the law with his father
under the firm name of J. T. & R. E.

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RALPH E. JOSLIN.
Joslin, having offices in Boston and
Hudson. This connection continued
until March i, 1901, when Samuel
W. Mendum, Esq., was admitted to
the firm and the firm name changed
to Joslin and Mendum.
Mr. Joslin was a member of the
School Coinmittee of Hudson for
four years, 1890 to 1894, and a trial
justice for Middlesex County for six
years, 1894 to 1900, resigning the
latter office upon his removal from
Hudson to Winchester as a place of
residence. He is a member of Doric
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Hudson
Lodge, I. O. O. F , of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society at Tufts, and of the
Calumet Club of Winchester.
ITe was married Feb. 8, 1892, to
Fanny Melissa, daughter of George
W. and Melissa A. (Metcalf) Davis
of Hudson, and of this marriage there
have been three children : Catherine,
deceased, Ralph D., and Ruth Joshn.

DANIEL CLEMENT DEN
NETT, M. D., was born in West-
brook, Maine, May 29, 1868, his
parents being Libert3' B. and Sarah J.
Dennett. He attended the Deering
High School, Portland, Western
State Normal School, Portland School
of Medical Instruction, and the Bow-
doin College Medical School.
Before entering upon the stud3' of
medicine. Dr. Dennett was for two
3'ears on the editorial staff of the
Portland Daily Press. He first
practised medicine at Bradford, Maine,
leaving there to become \oluntary as
sistant at the Massachusetts General
Hospital in the nose and throat de
partment, where he remained until
1897, when he received the appoint
ment of house officer of Carney Hos
pital, South Boston. At the expira
tion of his term of office he began to
practise medicine in Winchester, Mass.
Dr. Dennett is a member of the

DANIEL C. DENNETT.

HENRY A. SPATES.
Calumet Club, Winchester Boat Club,
Carney Hospital Association, Mass
achusetts Medical Society, and the
president of the Young People's Re
ligious Union of the Winchester Uni
tarian Church. He married Miss
Lillian M. Webb who died in 1894,
leaving one son, Mahlon W. Dennett.
HENRY ARTHUR SPATES,
superintendent of streets, was born
in Gloucester, Mass., Oct. 24, 1859,
his parents being William H. and
Mary. He received a common school
education, and at the age of thirteen
years, started road building under
G. M. Monson, road surveyor of Glou
cester. From 1884 to 1892 he was
engaged in building roads b3' con
tract, and from 1895 to 1897, was trav
eling agent to the American Road
Machine Compan3' of Kennett Square,
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FRANCIS D. CLEVELAND.
superintendent of streets in Gloucester,
and from Ma3' i, 1897 to the present
time he has served with ability
and satisfaction as superintendent
of streets of Winchester. He is a
member of Ashler Lodge of Masons,
Rockport, Mass., Massachusetts High
way Association, Gloucester Fireman's
Relief Association, Arlington Vet
eran's Fireman's Association, New
England Order of Protection, Win
chester Mutual Benefit Association,
and the Florida Bic3'cle Club.
While only twelve years of age
Mr. Spates made two trips at sea as
cabin boy in the coastwise fleet. He
married Miss Florence Jeffrey, and
the3' have one son, Arthur N., who
served in the Spanish-American War
in Cuba.
FRANCIS DIXON CLEVE
LAND, merchant, was born in Jersey
City, N. J., March 25, 1867, being

the son of Orestes and Jane (Dixon)
Cleveland. For three 3'ears he attended the
School of Mines at Columbia College,
and from 1889 to 1891 he was clerk
in the Engineering Bureau of Jersey
Cit3'. From 1892 to 1894, was as
sistant chief engineer of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners
of Jersey City, which office he resigned
and accepted a position with the
William Underwood Company of
Boston, being at the present time one
of the managers of this company.
He is a member of the Phi Delta
Theta Club of New York City and the
Calumet Club of Winchester.
He married Miss Estelle G. Iddings,
and they have two children, Arthur I.
andF. D., Jr.
WILLIAM IRVIN LAWRANCE,
pastor of the Winchester Unitarian
Church, was born March 3, 1853, in
Winchester, Ohio, his parents being
Elonson and Amanda (Irvin) Law-
rance. He studied in Antioch Col
lege, Ohio ; was ordained as pastor of
the Da3'ton Ohio Christian Church in
1875 ; and was principal of the Miami
Valley College, 1880-81. He after
ward attended the Harvard Divinit3'
School, from which he graduated
with the degree of S. T. B. in 1885.
From 1885 to 1891 he served as
pastor of the Third Religious Societ3',
Dorchester, Mass., from which charge
he resigned in 1891 to go to Japan as
missionary, where he stayed until
1894. In 1895 he accepted a call
from the Independent Congregational
Church of Meadville, Penn., and in
1899 was installed as pastor of the
Winchester Unitarian Church.

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THEODORE P. WILSON.
While in Lancaster, Ohio, he
was chaplain and superintendent of
schools in the Ohio Reform School.
Mr. Lawrance is a member of the
Bellefontaine Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
Raper Commandery, Knight Tem
plars, Urbana, Ohio, and of Belle
fontaine Lodge, I. O. O. F.
He married Miss Caroline Butter-
worth, and has three children, Ruth I.,
Mary C, and Charies W.
THEODORE PRICE WILSON,
editor and publisher of the Winchester
Star, was born in Boston, Aug. 14,
185 1, son of Alexander W. andSamu-
lina (Monroe) Wilson. His parents
were both natives of Paisley, Scotland.
His general education was acquired in
the public schools of South Boston (to
which place his parents removed dur
ing his boyhood), which he attended
until he reached the age of fourteen,
when he went into the composition

room of the Boston EveninQ- Traveler
to learn the printer's trade. Here he
worked under the eye of his father,
an experienced printer who had been
man3' 3'ears connected with the Trav
eler office (the entire service of the
latter in that office covering forty
)'ears) ; and his apprenticeship was
thorough. Subsequently he rose
through the various stages to the
position of assistant foreman, which he
held for a long period. In 1889, after
twenty-iive 3'ears' continuous service,
he came into possession of the Win
chester Star, through purchase, and
has the distinction of printing the first
newspaper issued in the town. In
connection with the newspaper is a
large job office, equipped with the
latest styles of type and up-to-date
machineiy, where all kinds of job
printing is done. Through perse-
\'erance and hard work he has suc
ceeded in placing the Star in the
front ranks of suburban journals. He
was for twelve years connected with
the State Militia, a member of Com
pany K, First Regiment, first lieu
tenant for three years — 1873-74-75.
He is a Freemason, member of the
Ro3'al Arch Chapter, Woburn, and
the William Parkman Lodge, Win
chester, a charter member of Water-
field Lodge of Odd Fellows, a
member of the Royal Arcanum, the
Calumet Club, the National Editorial
Association, the Massachusetts and
the New England Suburban Press
Associations. In politics he is a Re
publican, but not active personall3' in
or out of his editorial work. He was
married Nov. 29, 1876 to Miss
Ella Katharine Tupper of Cambridge,
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reporters " in Boston to report public
meetings, and has had a large news
paper experience and who has alwa3's
been a constant contributor to the
columns of the Winchester Star.
Mrs. Wilson is also a member of the
New England Press Association.
They ha^'e one son, Theodore Price
Wilson, Jr.
MOTT ALVAH CUMMINGS,
M. D., son of Dr. Alvah R. and
Mary (Davis) Cummings, was born
in Claremont, N. H., in 1862. He
graduated from Stevens High School
in 1878, Dartmouth College as A. B.
in 1882, and A. M. in 1885, and Har
vard Medical School, M. D., 1887.
Dr. Cummings came to Winchester
in 1888, where he has built up a satis-
factor3' practice. He is a member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society,
Masonic Order, and the Calumet Club
of Winchester. Dr. Cummings was
married in 1899 to Lenore Purington.
DARIUS AUGUSTUS NEW
TON, pastor of the First Congrega
tional Church, is the son of Darius
and Harriet Augusta (Fa3') Newton.
He received his education in the public
schools of Westborough, at Amherst
College and Andover Theological
Seminary, and was ordained minister
of the gospel in September, 1882. He
was born in Westborough, Mass., Oct.
I, 1855, and while a resident of Lan
caster Mr. Newton was a member of
the school committee in 1883, '84,
and '85. He is a member of the
Delta Upsilon Fraternity and the
Fortnightly Club of Ministers. ITe
married Marion C. Stone and they
have four children, Howard A.,

MOTT A. CUMMINGS.
Christine M., Francis C, and Harlan
F. Mr. Newton has had pastorates
in Lancaster and Stoneham, Mass.
LILLEY EATON, M. D., the son
of Everett W. and Abbie E. (Clark)
Eaton, was born in Wakefield, Mass.,
April 14, 1871. He attended the
Wakefield public schools, Dartmouth
Medical College, and the Harvard
Post-Graduate Courses. He was
Assistant Superintendent and Ph3'si-
cian in the Children's Hospital at
Baldwinsville, Mass., from 1892 to
1893, and Assistant Superintendent
and Ph3'sician of the Adams Nervine
As3'lum, Jamaica Plain, from 1893 to
1894. ITe practised medicine at Athol,
Mass., from 1894 to 1899, when he
came to Winchester where he now
resides. He is a member of the Mass
achusetts Medical Society, American
Medical Association, Millers Rivers

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Medical Societ3', of which he was for a
number of 3'ears the secretar3' and
treasurer, Calumet Club, and William
Parkman Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
The Hon. Lille3' Eaton, after whom
Dr. Eaton was named, was the his
torian of the town of Wakefield.
Dr. Eaton was married to Miss
Mabel A. Pettes, of Somerville, Mass.,
Dec. 29, i{

GEORGE ALPHEUS FER
NALD, banker, was born in East
Concord, N. H., on Feb. 13, 1850,
his parents being Josiah and Mary
E. Fernald.
At the age of nineteen he entered
the employ of the National State Cap
ital Bank of Concord, N. H., after
which he accepted a position as clerk
with the Loan ahd Trust Savings
Bank of the same city. He soon rose
to the position of treasurer, which posi
tion he filled until November, li

LILLEY EATON.

GEORGE A. FERNALD.
when he resigned to enter the banking
business in Boston, founding the firm
of George A. Fernald & Co., now one
of the leading banking concerns in
Boston. Mr. Fernald has been a
member of the Boston Stock Ex
change since Dec. 17, 1889, is a
member of the Boston Art Club and
the Exchange Club of Boston, and
the Calumet Club, Boat Club, and
Golf Club of Winchester. Mr. Fer
nald is a director of the National
Bank of Redemption of Boston, di
rector of the Middlesex Count3'
National Bank of Winchester, trus
tee of the Home Savings Bank of
Boston, vice-president of the Win
chester Cooperative Bank of Win
chester, and a director of the Mt.
Washington Railway.
Mr. Fernald married Miss Jessie A.
Dodge, and their children are : Robert
W., Barbara, Rebecca, and Llo3'd
Fernald.

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GEORGE A. SALT.MARSH.
GEORGE ABBOTT SALT-
MARS IT, lawyer, son of Gilman
Saltmarsh and Harriet E. (Robert
son) Saltinarsh, was born in Bow,
N. H., Oct. i8, i860. He received
his education in the public schools of
Concord, N. H., Tilton Seminary,
N. IT., Dartmouth College, 1884, and
Boston University Law School.
Mr. Saltmarsh was admitted to the
Suffolk Bar in 1886, and was librarian
for the Bar Association of Boston from
1885 to 1887 inclusive. ITe was asso
ciated with Sherman L. Whipple in
the practise of law from 1887 to 1896,
and since 1896 has been engaged in
the general practise of law, with offices
in the Tremont Building, Boston.
Mr. Saltmarsh is a 3 2d Degree
Mason, a member of Palestine Lodge
of Everett, Mass., and of Massachu
setts Consistoiy of F5oston.
In 1890, he married Nellie G.
vSoulee, and he has four children :

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Sherman W., George A., Jr., Mar
guerite, and Roger W.
JOHN WARREN STEARNS,
M. D., was born in Paris, France,
June 16, 1866, and is the son of
Marian (Long) and Dr. John Stearns,
of Boston.
ITe received his education in the
Boston Latin School and the United
States Naval Academ3', and is M. D.
of Columbian Universit3' of Washing
ton, D. C.
Dr. Stearns is a member of the
Coluinbian LIniversit3' Alumni Associ
ation and the Massachusetts Medical
Societ3'. He married Charlotte L. Page, and
has two children : Grace C. and John
Warren Stearns, Jr.
WILLIAM ALANSON SNOW\
the son of Zenas and Temperance
Snow, was born in Chelsea, Mass.,
April 15, 1840.
He has for man3' 3'ears been in the
United States Customs Service, and is
a veteran of the Civil War, having
served four 3'ears.
Mr. Snow was a trustee of the
Winchester Savings Bank from 1889
to 1901, and is a member of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States and the Grand Army
of the Republic.
Mr. Snow married ITelen Florence
Winde, and they have five children :
William A., Jr., Ensign FInited States
Navy, Frederic L., Carrie G., Sydney
B., and Lena R.
ARTHUR HASTINGS RUS
SELL, law3'er, was born in Boston,
Dec. I, 1859, being the son of Thomas

H. and Maria (Wiswell) Russell. He
is a graduate of Amherst College, re
ceiving from that institution the degree
A. B. ini88i and A. M. in 1887. ITe
was graduated from the Law School,
Boston Universitx', in 1884, with de
gree of LL. B., having been admitted
to the Suffolk Bar before his gradua
tion. He afterwards became a mem
ber of the Bar of the United States
Courts, and of the Supreme Court of
the United States. He is a member
of the firm of Russell & Russell, and

187 1, the incorporators being John T.
Manny, A. K. P. Joy, Henry B. Met
calf, David N. Skillings, J. F. Dwi
nell, and Stephen Cutter. At the first
meeting for organization, JUI3' 7, 187 1,
the following officers were chosen :
President, David N. Skillings ; vice-
presidents, Stephen Cutter, Fred Win-
sor, Benjamin F. Ham ; treasurer,
John T. Mann3' ; secretary, Charles
O. Billings; trustees, J. T. Maniy,
A. K. P. Joy, H. B. Metcalf, James
F. Dwinell, Thomas P. Ayer, Charles

RESIDENCE, HARRISON PARKER, MAIN STREET.

engaged in general law practice in
Boston. He has been a moderator
of the Winchester town meetings for
some years. He is a member of the
Exchange Club and Episcopalian Club,
of Boston, and the Calumet Club, of
Winchester. He was married in 1885
to Fannie E. Hunt, and they have
three children, Helen, Marie L., and
Gertrude. THE WINCHESTER SAVINGS
BANK was incorporated March 3,

O. Billings, John R. Cobb, ITenr3'
Cutter, Charles E. Follansbee, Charles
H. Dunham, Moses A. Herrick,
William H. Kinsman, John C. Mason,
Josiah F. Stone, Edmund Sanderson,
H. K. Thatcher, Stephen Thompson,
S. W. Twombly, Salem Wilder,
D. W3'man Locke. The bank was
first located in the front room of the
house belonging to Stephen Cutter,
situated on the corner of Church and
Main Streets, where White's Block
now stands. In 1880 the bank took

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a room in the Brown and StantOn
Block, and remained there until April,
1894, when thej' occupied their ele
gant new building on Pleasant Street.
The business of the bank has always
been ver3' conservativel3' managed,
and the endeavor of the officers has
been to secure safety for the fund of
its depositors. The present officers
and trustees of the bank are : Presi
dent, Alonzo P. Weeks ; vice-presi
dents, Stephen S, Langle3', Charles
W. Shattuck, Preston Pond ; treasurer,
Charies E. Redfern; clerk, N. T.
Appollonio ; teller, Fred A. Sanborn ;
trustees, N. T. Appollonio, Daniel B.
Badger, William F. Berry, George P.
Brown, Alfred S. Hall, Franklin L.
Hunt, Fred Joy, Stephen S. Langley,
George N. P. Mead, Joshua Coit,
Lewis Parkhurst, Preston Pond, Ed
mund Sanderson, Charles W. Shat
tuck, Edward A. Smith, Edward H.
Stone, Stephen Thompson, Alonzo P.
Weeks, Samuel B. White.
THE MIDDLESEX COFINTY
NATIONAL BANK of Winchester
was organized April 27, 1897, and
commenced the transaction of business

June I, 1897. The men who took
out organization papers were Samuel
J. Elder, Frank A. Cutdng, WilHam
Firth, John L. Hildreth, Charles E.
Barrett, and some thirty others. The
following well-known Winchester men
have served on the Board of Direc
tors : Lewis Parkhurst, formerly pres
ident, S. J. Elder, Wm. Firth, F. A.
Cutdng, J. W. Russell, J. L. Ayer,
F. E. Hovey, F. L. Ripley, F. L.
Pattee, L. H. W. Vaupel, and C. E.
Barrett. The officers at the present
time are : President, F. A. Cutting ;
vice-president, J. W. Russell ; cashier,
C. E. Barrett.

BEGGS AND COBB, manufac
turers of upper leather, were estab
lished in January, 1880, the firm
being composed of Wm. Beggs and
Elisha W. Cobb. Their works, which
are the largest in the country, are es
tablished in Winchester, an illustra
tion of their tanneries being published
in the first part of this volume.
Messrs. Beggs & Cobb do a large
business throughout North and South
America, Europe, and Australia.

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Winchester's Fiftieth Anniversary.
NOTABLE OBSERVANCE BY THE CALUMET CLUB.

On April 30, 1900, the Calumet
Club fittingly observed the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Incorporation of
the Town of Winchester. But for
this action of the club this important
anniversary of the town would have
been allowed to pass by without the
recognition that such an event de
serves. After the town meeting in
March, the Calumet Club took the
matter up and determined the event
should be given the recognition it
deserved, so far as it lay in their
power so to do. The following com
mittee was then appointed to perfect
plans for a celebration : —
Edgar J. Rich, chairman ; Freder
ick N. Kerr, secretaiy ; Frank A.
Cutting, Henry A. Emerson, Samuel
S. Folsom, George S. Littlefield,
Frank L. Ripley, D. Nelson Skill
ings, Thomas S. Spurr, George G.
Stratton. The committee immedi
ately came together, arranged all the
details, and the result was the cele
bration of April 30, 1900, one of
the most notable in the history of the
club and second only in importance
to the observance of the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the first
white settlement within the limits of
the town of Winchester, — which took
place ten years ago.
The attendance at the club-house
was large and included many of the
old cidzens of the town, and nearly
all the present town officials. The

rooms were handsomel3' decorated
with flags and bunting and potted
plants and ferns. From 7.30 to 8.30
o'clock there was a reception to the
selectmen, the receiving party being
the chairman of the Board, J. P.
Boutwell and Selectmen Nathan H.
Taylor, James J. Fitzgerald, and Ed
ward F. Jones, and President Edgar
J. Rich and Frank A. Cutting of the
club. The ushers were the mem
bers of the anniversary committee.
Throughout the evening music was
furnished by an orchestra.
Among the older citizens present
were Alfred W. Qiiimby, A. P. Palmer,
Edmund Sanderson, C. H. Dupee,
J. S. KendaU, E. A. Brackett, Mar
shall Symmes, Hon. A. B. Coffin,
Alexis Cutting, S. H. Folsom, Charles
Symmes, S. B. White, A. E. Rowe,
Warren Johnson, H. F. Johnson, and
Harrison Parker.
The exercises were brought to a
close shortly after 10.30 o'clock, when
all present partook of an elegant and
toothsome banquet served in the large
billiard hall.
In opening the exercises President
Rich spoke as follows : —
^'- Fellow-Citizciis : The Calumet
Club extends to you a hearty welcome
to this celebration of the fiftieth anni
versary of the day, when by act of the
legislature portions of the towns of
Woburn, Medford, and West Cam-

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bridge were set apart and incorporated
into the town of Winchester. Ten
years ago the town celebrated the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
first white settlement within its limits ;
so that, although as a town we are
not old according to the standards of
New England, as a community we
are scarcely younger than the oldest.
We hope we have the experience and
wisdom of age and the freshness and
power of youth. May we not properly
sa3' that we are two hundred and sixty
years old and fift3' 3'ears young?
" We are gathered together not to
discuss problems of town government,
not to stir the embers of controversy,
but, forgetting differences of opinion
which must exist and which are the
evidence of healthy growth, to remem
ber that we are each a part of a com
munity which we are proud to call
home. We are here to grasp each
other b3' the hand, to renew old ac
quaintances, to make new, in order
that there ma3' be a more perfect
blending of the various elements
which combined make the strength
of that true democracy, the town.
" The more we know of this town
of Winchester, the more we learn of
its histor3' and its traditions, the prouder
we will be of it, and the more deter
mined to make it the ideal town of this
grand Commonwealth. Therefore, no
occasion when these memories and
traditions may be revived ought to be
allowed to pass without observation.
To-night we shall have the pleasure of
listening to addresses b3' some of our
eminent citizens who havt made the
study of the history of our town a
labor of love."
President Rich then announced that

the speakers would talk of the history
of the town from previous to 1850,
then during the incorporation period
in 1850, and from then to the present
time. Following is the interesting
speech delivered by Mr. Nathaniel A.
Richardson, one of the first citizens of
Winchester. " A/r. Presideiit of the Calumet
Club : To-night we cannot forget
the \enerable age and graces of the
mother cit3', Woburn, represented
here b3' its honored ma3'or. Neither
can we be silent to the blooming
beauties of the daughter, Winchester, a
part of Woburn, Medford, and Arling
ton before its incorporation in 1850.
" All interested in its creation now
dead, of its first three hundred voters
but eighteen now li\'e in the town.
Prominent in securing its incorpora
tion was Frederick O. Prince, who
lived here then, an eminent lawyer,
trustee of the Harrison Gray Otis
estate, and later ma\'or of Boston, a
genial, accomplished gentleman. He
had great influence with Mr. Win
chester after whom the town was
named, and who gave the town three
thousand dollars for his name. Hon.
John A. Bolles, a distinguished law
yer and Secretar\' of State under
Governor Marcus Morton, did a great
deal of work for the birth of Win
chester. ITe was a polished speaker
and fine orator. He lived on Dix
Street, built the house lately owned
by Edward Shattuck. His wife was
sister to General Dix of polidcal and
inilitar3- fame in the War of the Re
bellion. The street was named Dix
on this account. Mr. Bolles was on
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ress Munroe. Charles Kimball li\ed
here, was one of the hardest workers
for the new town, was a school teacher
in Boston, was born in Littleton,
Mass., lived at the corner of Church
and Cambridge streets, was an adept
in the art of political tact, was later
High Sheriff of Middlesex County,
and died in office, respected b\' the
bar and bench. 01i\'er R. Clark ren
dered great service in the life of the
town, a persistent worker, of high
moral principle, an active member of

arm, collar and necktie in his hand to
be put on in the cars. Going down
the Mississippi River, when the boat
stopped for passengers, he would goon
shore and run for the next stop, and
be ready to jump aboard again. The
abo\'e six gentlemen are all dead.
Many others took a deep interest in
creating the new town. Earl3' in the
contest Winchester gained some strong
points. It had Stephen M. Gifford,
of Duxbuiy, a chairman of the com
mittee on tovvns, earnestly in its favor.

RESIDENCE, S,\MUEL B. WHITE, MT. VERNOX STREET.

the firm of Cutters, Clark & Co., and
on his mother's side a descendant of
the first Samuel Richardson. Deacon
B. F. Thompson and S. S. Richard
son, who inoved here from Woburn
Center about 1836, the former a good
business man and cidzen, the latter an
ardent worker for the town, of great
nervous energy, persuasive in plans to
carry a point — would jump up from
his table in the morning and say to
his wife, ' Nabby, I am going to New
Orleans,' run with his coat under his

The Town Counsel was Albert TI,
Nelson, of Woburn, an able lawyer,
afterwards Attorne3' General of the
State and Judge of the Superior Court,
— the fee paid him was two hundred
and fifty dollars. Woburn emplo3'ed
B. F. Hallett, a remarkably cool and
able lawyer, but of no avail in pre
venting the division. The three first
Selectmen of Winchester — Nathan B.
Johnson, Loring Emerson, and Charles
Maclntire — are now dead, able and
discrete men.

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" The Orthodox Society left the
mother church in Woburn in 1840 and
built a new church here (burnt down
and rebuilt) near the present one.
The first minister was George P
Smith, the second Wm. T. Eustice, the
third John M. Steele, who was minister
when the town was incorporated. His
successor for nineteen 3'ears was R. T.
Robinson. The first town clerk was
David Youngman. The first town
treasurer was Samuel B. White. The
first tax collector was Samuel Kendall.

Street to a lot just south of the Henry
Stone house, and later to the rear of
the D. N. Skillings estate, and turned
into a small dwelling-house where it
now stands. Before this house was
moved in 183 1 all the children in South
Woburn, from Montvale Avenue to
now Central Street, attended school in
it. No desks in it, only three rows of
plank to sit upon, running around the
sides and end of the building facing
the walls, over which the children had
to step to get a seat ; man3' able

RESIDENCE, MRS. JACOB C. STANTON, WASHINGTON STREET.

The first assessors were C3'rus Ban
croft, Gardner Symmes, and Ezekiel
Johnson. Of the one hundred and
sevent3'-six signers of the petition to
the legislature to incorporate the town,
but ten are now living. The first
schoolhouse erected within the limits
of Winchester was in 1794, stood off
Washington, opposite Harvard Street.
It was sold in 1818 and a new one
built just north of the speaker's house :
this in 183 1 was moved, drawn b\'
three yoke of oxen, down Washington

teachers taught in this little house,
males in winter and females in sum
mer, eight and nine weeks in summer
and eight in winter. In this little 20
by 30 ft. house religious meetings were
often held and lectures given.
"The first store in South Woburn,
now Winchester, was kept by Paul
Wyman one hundred and twent3'-five
years ago ; his son Jesse condnued it
undl 1840. It stood at the juncdon of
Main and Washington streets, kept
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spices, with a good supply of West
India rum. About 1830 Wm. Gram-
mer opened a groceiy store near by.
In 1837 John S3'mmes moved out of
Boston and built a general assortment
store just north of the Vinton estate,
afterwards turned into a dwelling-
house, and since moved away. In
1837 S. S. Richardson built a store
standing where Lyceum Building is
standing, and when the latter was
built it was moved north where it is
now located. About this time Sumner
Richardson built the store for James
Bridge, now occupied by Mr, Adams,
Since then the store history of Win
chester would fill a small volume. In
1850 Bacon's mill was in full operation,
turning out materials for hat bodies
and woolen work. The Converse
" corn mill," located where the Whit
ney mill is located, has met with
many and interesting changes for the
last fifty years, many skilled mechan
ics with nimble fingers have earned
their bread here. For two hundred
and fifty years this mill site had a
colonial and modern history as start
ling as the charm of fiction. Cutter's
mill was in 1850 a place of great in
dustry and profit ; sevent3'-five years
before it had been a prosperous grist
mill, run by Joseph Richardson, great
grandfather of one of your honorable
members, Mr, George Stratton, whose
father gave up his life upon the battle
field and to-day lies in an unknown
grave. In 1850 Church & Lane's
pianoforte mill was one of the flour
ishing industries of Winchester. At
this date William B. Lindly did a
thrifty business in the manufacture of
sewing silk in the building now occu
pied by Charles Jordan as a dwelling-

house, front of Kelley's stable. In
1850 another mill was prominent in
Winchester, known a hundred years
ago as the Jeduthan Richardson grist
mill. This mill was created by a spe
cial act of the Legislature, who granted
Richardson the right to dig a canal and
turn the Aberjona River into it, to get
a better fall. In 1825 this mill had
gone to decay, and a few years later
was hired by Loa and Harrison
Parker and used for sawing mahogany
into veneers. Parker gave it up and
removed to Winchester village. In
1850 it was run b3' John Hopley, who
afterwards gave it up. James H.
Winn bought it later of Luther
Richardson and now does a liveh'
business, employing many girls in
making watch hands. Winchester
has had many able men in business.
D. N. Skillings came here in 1855
and did a great deal to develop the
town, James F. Dwinell, Edwin Ginn,
very successful business men, with
many others I have not time to men
tion. Wm. C. Jarvis, one of the
ablest members of the bar, lived on
Washington, near Nelson Street, a
member of the Legislature in 1830,
once Speaker of the House, a pro
found writer on political economy and
the obligations of citizens to town and
State government. Francis Alexander
Durivage lived in Winchester in 1850
and ten years after. His mother was
a sister to Edward Everett and Alex
ander H. Everett, the latter a demo
crat in politics, one time minister to
China and president of the Louisiana
College ; the former, governor of
Massachusetts and minister to Eng
land, a brilliant scholar, orator, and
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Winchester, built a fine mansion on
the western shore of M3'stic Lake,
now owned and occupied by Mr.
Crawford. Nathan Hale, for many
years editor of the Boston Daily Ad
vertiser and father of Edward Everett
Hale, the scholar and lecturer, married
a sister to Mr. Durivage's mother.
F. A. Durivage was a splendid
scholar by birth and education, of
classical culture, a linguist who could
toy with half a dozen foreign lan
guages, a prolific writer in prose and
poetr3', translator of foreign works,
of exquisite taste, a fine painter and
judge of sculpture, wrote for many of
the literary papers and magazines of
the da3', wrote dramatic plays highh'
appreciated upon the stage, was in the
Boston and New York Custom House
in close relation to the Collector, in
foreign correspondence and delicate
official duties. He moved to New
York, where he died in 1881 after hav
ing traveled extensivel3' in Europe.
He had two sons in the War of the Re
bellion. The youngest, Henry, on
General Butler's staff at New Orleans,
lost his life in service ; the eldest,
Francis, returned home and died.
" Our subject left one daughter,
Mary, bereft of her husband, Alfred
Bennet, a gentleman of business tal
ent, who now resides in New Jersey.
Possessed of her father's genius, she
is attractive in all the relations of life.
" The Black Horse Tavern, built in
1724, with its amazing histor3', has
been fully described by your speaker
in the Winchester Star of Sept. 24,
1892. No spot in Middlesex County
is more historical in all its narrative
than this once famous tavern. The
Governor Brooks farm, now owned

by Marshall Symmes, at Symmes
Corner, Winchester, is vivid in all its
ancient and modern story.
"The Belknap home, located in
Winchester, near the Woburn line,
and owned by the heirs of Charles
Russell, is significant in its traditional
interest ; its early occupants of revolu
tionary and militar3' renown are
deeply engraved upon the page of
genealogical events — the home of
' Witch Belknap,' with her fearful and
satanic power over the minds and
lives of her neighbors as chilling as
the story of Dante in his infernal
descriptions. " Here moved Nathaniel Davis from
Weston about one hundred years ago.
He kept a tavern, the second ever
kept in South Woburn. It was at this
tavern that Benjamin and Joseph
Brooks were brought after the3' were
found on ' Woburn Mountain ' frozen
to death while cutting wood on the
' Cold Frida3',' Jan. 19, 1810.
" The Swan farm on Washington,
near Eaton Street, is a marked spot in
the histor3' of Winchester, fifty years
ago. Here lived Dr. Swan, the father
of the wife of the late Senator Justin
Morrill of Vermont.
"Wedge Pond, near b3' \'our ele
gant club-house, has a history anterior
to its recorded one of 1686. Its
wooded shores and clear waters reflect
the pristine deeds of the red man as he
fished and bathed, with no white man
to steal away his canoe or marvel at
his naked and sinew3' form. Since
1850 this limpid lake has become a
spot of beauty and delight to all who
roam for pleasure.
" The Howe lot, soon to become
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3'et unborn will be rocked in the
kindergarten cradle and go on and up
to higher grades from which to go out
into the world, and become fathers
and mothers of merchants and states
men. I have no time to tell the names
of all the families and their homes
who lived in Winchester fifty 3'ears
ago, of the personal history of man3'
who lived here long before — of
Joseph Brown so prominent in official
life, of Job Miller of Revolutionary
War fame, of Jonathan Eaton and his

his hair turned from gray to black,
and a new set of upper teeth began to
grow. One day a sea captain was
riding from Boston to Woburn,
stopped and talked with Richardson,
and said he wanted to buy a singing
bird, for which he would give five
dollars. Richardson told him he
would catch him one and have it for
him when he came back. The cap
tain went on his way, and when he
came back the bird was caught and all
ready in the box. The money paid,

RESIDENCE, DANIEL B. BADGER, PROSPECT STREET.

wife in their domestic relations, of
Samuel Kendall, of his blunt speech
and his monstrous large hands. I
must speak of Abel Richardson, who
was born in 1736 and died in 1831,
only nineteen years before the birth of
Winchester. He bought the Edward
Converse home, embracing what is
now all Winchester between Main
and Washington streets, from the
house of Jacob Stanton to Nelson
Street, also the Converse, now Whit
ney's mill. When ninet3' years old

Richardson told the captain the bird
was a beautiful singer, and would
sing all night. As the shadow of
night began to gather the captain
heard hea\'3' sounds of music in the
box. He thought the bird was being
stifled, he opened the box, when out
jumped a large bull frog, uttering very
loud music. The captain lost the
bird and in a few da3'S called again
with a bitter complaint. Richardson
told him it was a rare kind of a bird,
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frog, and in the morning turned back
into a bird. The captain said he had
sailed all over the world and never
before had seen that kind of a bird —
was very sorry he lost it, as Richardson
told him it was the last one he had.
"Mr. President, you said to me
3'ou wished me to say something of
my personal history (this is a pretty
delicate subject to speak of before so
intelligent an audience as this) and
the different offices I have held. I
was elected to the Legislature in 1841
as a representative from Woburn and
South Woburn when I was twent3'-one
3'ears, two months, and ten da3's old.
I was again elected in 1842, again in
1843. The first year I was elected
the House consisted of three hundred
and fift3' members, all are now dead
but four ^- George S. Boutwell, my
self, and two other members are alive.
I dressed about the same as the aver
age country members : my overcoat
cost nine dollars, 1113' suit of clothes
ten dollars, m3' boots (thick ones; two
dollars, my cap, cloth, with fur band
around it, one dollar and seventy-five
cents. I rode into Boston, taking my
trunk with me, with Jacob Skinner,
who ran a two-horse baggage wagon
daily to the city, I stopped at
Bryant's Hotel, then in Union Street;
they charged me five dollars a week,
could not pa3' that, went to a private
house on Hanover Street and paid
three dollars per week. The pay of
a representative at this time was two
dollars per da3'.
" Flenry Wilson was elected the
same year, also George S. Boutwell.
I learned a good deal by the presence
of able men in the house. George
T. Bigelow, Joseph Bed, Peleg W.

Chandler, John C. Gray, Charles T.
Russell, father of the late Governor
Russell, Leverett Saltonstall, Ensign
IT. Kellogg, Charles Francis Adams,
Judge Lord, John C. Park, John G.
Palfre3', C. P. Curtis, William Schou-
ler, Richard Frothingham, and many
other able men. I was called the
' boy member,' took a great interest in
politics, and made man3' speeches on
the stump in the Harrison campaign.
Then twenty years old, I made several
speeches in the Legislature, which
were published in the papers of the
da3'. I have spoken in Maine many
times, in New York, Rhode Island,
and in Ohio in the Hayes campaign.
I was collector of taxes in Woburn
four years ; when Winchester was a
part of Woburn, was one of the asses
sors to take the valuation of Woburn
in 1850, also collector of taxes during
the same year. In 1845 was elected
a member of a committee of five to
lay out and build ' Wood Brook '
Cemetery, Salem Street, Woburn;
worked all summer in charge of men
at one dollar and sevent^'-fi^'e cents
per day, and for si.x 3ears was post
master in South Woburn. I was col
lector of taxes in Winchester six
years, treasurer four years, selectman
two 3'ears, weigher in Boston Custom
House five years, superintendent of
streets in Winchester nine years.
" I was commissioned Justice of the
Peace in 185 1 by Governor Boutwell
and re-commissioned in 1858 b3' Gov
ernor Banks. Appointed Commissary
of Subsistence b3' President Lincoln,
on recommendation of Senator Henry
Wilson, with the rank of Captain of
Cavalry ; had charge of the general
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was with General Butler at Bermuda
Hundred, commissary of sustenance
for the 3d Brigade. 2d division of
cavalr3', also at one time for the 2d
division, comprising four brigades of
sixteen regiments ; was at Hancock
Station, in front of Petersburg in the
winter of 1864, also on the staff of
General Smith, now of the regular
army. I was at City Point when the
army crossed the James River, was at
Dutch Gap when General Butler was
at Fort Harrison, was sent b3' Colonel

where they fell in battle not then
buried, and several hundred wounded
were waiting the surgeon's knife and
saw ; in the yard of one farmhouse I
counted one hundred and eighty men
lying about the ground waiting to be
treated. I went into the operating
room where six surgeons were remov
ing arms, legs, and feet, which, when
amputated, were put out of an open
window until the pile was as high as
the window stool and the blood upon
the floor was over the soles of one's

RESIDENCE, WILLIAM A. SNOW, RIDGEWAY STREET.

Morgan with a large train of commis
sary stores to report to General Han
cock, who for three days had been
fighdng the first great battle in front
of Petersburg and whose command
was out of provisions. While perform
ing this duty I was in the saddle three
days and two nights without sleep or
rest. I was complimented b3' General
Hancock for coming to reheve his
hungry soldiers. I went over the field
of battle, one of the fiercest of the
war, four hundred men lay dead

shoes. Such is war, indeed hell. I
was present at the terrible battle of
' Five Forks,' when more ghastl3'
sights met the e3'e. I was present at
the surrender of General Lee at Ap
pomattox Court House and saw some
thing of the transaction. I remained
in service a year after the war closed
and was sent to New Orleans, and
from there to Shreveport up the Red
River, se\en hundred miles, to look
after and sell government stores, which
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three thousand dollars, down to New
Orleans in the leg of one boot and my
pistol in the other boot leg. For five
nights I slept with my clothes and boots
on, for man3r desperate men and gam
blers were on the boat. I asked to be
relieved from service, which b3' the in
fluence of Senator Wilson was granted
a year after the war closed, and I was
mustered out with the rank of Brevet
Major, signed b3' Andrew Johnson,
acting president.
" The ist of May, 1866, I left my
post and came to Winchester, and on
the loth of June I went to Washing
ton to close in3' accounts, with a clerical
en'or of thirtA'-four cents, which I paid,
and took up m3' bonds which had been
signed by two friends. General Eaton,
the then Commissar3' General stationed
at Washington, was anxious that I
should hold my commission and go
into the regular arm3', which I ha^'e
many times regretted that I did not
do. " Mr. President and members of the
Calumet Club, please accept my kind
regards for the honor of speaking to
A'ou to-night. Your house is elegant
and all its associations interesting.
May you all live many 3'ears to enjoy
life and comfort ! I believe in Win
chester, where for seven generations,
two hundred and fifty years, m3' an
cestors have li^'ed and died, some of
them slain in 1676 153- the Indians near
where I now live.
" Mr. President, fifty years ago
Winchester was a small village, with
a few plain dwellings, crooked and ill-
constructed streets, two small school-
houses, one meeting-house, the aspect
of the town simple and rural ; to-daA'
it is inviting and impressive in e\er3'

feature, imposing homes, magnificent
in style and comfort, with fine lawns
picturesque with flowers and shrubs.
Six churches give invite to worship
God in sincerity and truth. Eight
schoolhouses convenient and attractive
to please the e3'e and instruct the mind,
with doors wide open. Streets wide
and costly built, taste and beauty re
spond to the wish of the people, growth
and prosperit3' are developed with mar
velous advance. Old wa3's are closed
up, new avenues lead to higher civili
zation and broader life. The world
moves, and Winchester is in the front
rank. Her cemetery, early christened
by the living to the dead, watered with
tears and beautified with loving hearts
and attentive hands.
" Our Common, once Edward Con
verse's cornfield, loveh' with its green
surface and level walks, refreshing
with its fountain of sparkling rills.
Our Town Hall, fine and convenient
to prosecute public business, with its
librar3' shelves replete with volumes of
wisdom to feed the mind with a knowl
edge of past and present existence.
Fifty 3'ears ago, only springs and dis
tant wells to quench thirst and satisf3'
domestic wants ; to-day, clear water
flows through field and lane, through
palace and cottage. Eleven years after
Winchester began to live, it sent its
sons in full quota to war, to maintain
the Constitution and continue the union
of States. ' With war in each breast
and freedom on each brow,' at the
Wilderness, at Fredericksburg, at An-
tietam and Gett3'sburg, their blood and
lives wert' given up for libert3' and good
government. Some sleep in Wildwood,
some where the3' fell — all honored in
stor)' and song."

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Contents,

Allen, Clarence J.
Bacon, Charles N.
Bacon House .
Badger, Daniel B. .
Barker, Edward S.
Barta, Louis .
Beggs & Cobb
Benton, Jay B.
Brackett, Edward A.
Bradstreet, Charles W.
Calumet Club
Carpenter, Frank F.
Church, Benjamin T.
Cleveland, Francis D.
Coffin, Abraham B.
Cummings, Mott A.
Cutting, Frank A.
Dennett, Daniel C.
Dwinell, James F.
Eaton, Lilley
Elder, Samuel J.
Episcopal Church .
Fernald, George A.
First Baptist Church .
First Congregational Church
Gilbert, George H.
Ginn, Edwin .
Goddu, Louis
Hall, Alfred Stevens .
Harding, Francis H.
Historical Sketch .
Huntress, George L.
Hurd, Theodore C.
Introduction ....
Johnson, Henry F.
Joslin, Ralph E.
Lawrance, William I. .

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McCall, Samuel W. . . ,
Mcintosh, William R.
Main, Charles T. .
Mead, George N. P.
Middlesex County National Bank
Mystic School
Newell, William C.
Newton, Darius A.
Norton, Alfred
Parker, Harrison .
Parkhurst, Lewis
Pattee, Lewis C.
Pond, Preston
Prince, Frederick O.
Rangeley . . . .
Redfern, Charles E.
Rich, Edgar J 
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Nathaniel A.
Russell, James W.
Russell, Arthur H.

Saltmarsh, George A.
Sanborn, Orren C.
Shepherd, Hovey L.
Skillings, David N.
Snow, William A.
Spates, Henry A.
Stanton, Jacob C.
Stearns, John W.
Stone, E. H.
Suter, John W.
Symmes, Marshall
Symmes, Frederick M.
Symmes, Samuel S.
TitleTown Hall .
Twombly, Samuel W.
Tyler, Joseph H. .

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Vinton, Alfred C.
Wadleigh School .
Wallis, Louis R.
Weeks, Alonzo P. .
Wheeler, Harry A.
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Winchester's Fiftieth Anniversary . 69
Winchester, William P. . . -25
Winchester Boat Club . . .5
Winchester Savings Bank . . 12,67
Winn, James H  48
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Woods, George A. . 42-43
Wooster, Fred \'. 52-53
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